On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 12:02:21PM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > I have a drm device on the platform bus, similar to the exynos driver.
> > right now libdrm (at least the tests included in libdrm) refuses to open
> > the device because i915, nouveau, radeon and vmwgfx is all they know
> > about. Looking at the libdrm code it is not obvious how to fix this
> > (except for adding "exynos", "mydevice", "myotherdevice" to the module
> > table which seems awkward and not very futureproof). Any hints or
> > thoughts how to proceed here?
>
> libdrm tests aren't really used that much, and it might be easier to
> just not care.
>
> people just hack on them for their platforms and sometimes someone
> pushes one in.
Ok, I can keep a local hack. What are your plans for the
xf86-modesetting driver? It works nicely after I commented out some
pci specific things and replaced drmOpen(NULL, BusID) with
open("/dev/dri/card0", O_RDWR). Do you plan to continue on the driver
and would accept patches for it?
Sascha
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