Am 17.09.19 um 10:17 schrieb Daniel Vetter: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM Christian König > <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Am 17.09.19 um 07:47 schrieb Jani Nikula: >>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Marek Olšák <maraeo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> The purpose is to get rid of all PCI ID tables for all drivers in >>>> userspace. (or at least stop updating them) >>>> >>>> Mesa common code and modesetting will use this. >>> I'd think this would warrant a high level description of what you want >>> to achieve in the commit message. >> And maybe explicitly call it uapi_name or even uapi_driver_name. > If it's uapi_name, then why do we need a new one for every generation? > Userspace drivers tend to span a lot more than just 1 generation. And > if you want to have per-generation data from the kernel to userspace, > then imo that's much better suited in some amdgpu ioctl, instead of > trying to encode that into the driver name. Well we already have an IOCTL for that, but I thought the intention here was to get rid of the PCI-ID tables in userspace to figure out which driver to load. I mean it could be perfectly valid to not only match the kernel, but also the hardware generation for that. Christian. > -Daniel _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
