Hey Robert, thank you for the reply. 2017-09-22 23:43 GMT+08:00 Robert Foss <robert.foss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hey Chih-Wei, > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 10:40 +0800, Chih-Wei Huang wrote: >> Great news! >> Thanks a lot to make it happen. >> >> I hope I am wrong. >> From my understanding most x86 GPUs still >> cannot work with drm_hwcomposer since >> they lack of atomic mode-setting API support >> required by drm_hwcomposer. >> Hope this could be addressed soon since >> drm_hwcomposer becomes a standard project of fd.o. > > I haven't personally run drm_hwc ontop of any x86 hardware, but there > are people who do it. Indeed we (android-x86 project) are the people who try to use it but without lucky. Rob Herring also uses (a slightly modified) drm_hwcomposer with his aosp virgl porting. Except these I don't know any others use it on x86 hardware. Though drm_hwcomposer is developed from Chromium but I've heard Chrome actually use an alternative proprietary hwcomposer in their Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC). > The android-ia project has supported using drm_hwcomposer and an > alternative hwcomposer, so it would think there should be no issues. By x86 GPUs, I meant i915(i965)/nouveau/radeon/amdgpu/virgl/vmwgfx. Among these only virgl works with the current drm_hwcomposer. All the others don't have a ready atomic mode-setting API to use it. That's the problem which should be addressed I meant. The android-ia doesn't support using fdo's drm_hwcomposer I think. They use an alternative hwcomposer [1] as you said. It looks very different than drm_hwcomposer though both rely on the similar (or same?) atomic API. Android-ia's kernel has also been patched to work with it. The vanilla kernel (at least LTS 4.9) can't work with [1] or drm_hwcomposer. Actually [1] only works with i915(i965) but we want a more generic hwcomposer like drm_hwcomposer. Please correct me if I am wrong. [1]: git://github.com/01org/IA-Hardware-Composer >> How about the gralloc? >> There are also several implementations >> scattered somewhere. >> I think it's also important to standardize it to fd.o >> and make it work with fd.o's drm_hwcomposer. > > Gralloc is a different story, and the right person to ask about it is > not me, but maybe Rob Herring. -- Chih-Wei Android-x86 project http://www.android-x86.org _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
