On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 03:01:08PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote: > I don't agree with your statement that it should be "a layer over top of DRM". > Anything on top of DRM is a device driver. > Accel is not a device driver, it is a new type of drm minor / drm driver. Yeah, I still think this is not the right way, you are getting almost nothing from DRM and making everything more complicated in the process. > The only alternative imo to that is to abandon the idea of reusing > drm, and just make an independant accel core code. Not quite really, layer it properly and librarize parts of DRM into things accel can re-use so they are not intimately tied to the DRM struct device notion. IMHO this is much better, because accel has very little need of DRM to manage a struct device/cdev in the first place. Jason
