Re: [PATCH] drm/vgem: drop DRIVER_PRIME (v2)

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On 05/21/2015 06:07 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:58:30AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>> For actual sharing of buffers with other drivers (ie. actual hardware)
>> we'll need to pimp things out a bit better to deal w/ caching, multiple
>> memory domains, etc.  See thread:
>>
>>   https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.freedesktop.org_archives_dri-2Ddevel_2015-2DMay_083160.html&d=AwIDAw&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=vpukPkBtpoNQp2IUKuFviOmPNYWVKmen3Jeeu55zmEA&m=5PY5xMHJsYyknpy_IWAegxqACOaf4x60CKosyG0oxCw&s=ciVeRE10840cewxQSgbJ_4YfCH6tU8A1o58k0tHgkD8&e= 
>>
>> But for the llvmpipe use-case this isn't a problem.  Nor do we really
>> need prime/dri3 (dri2 is sufficient).  So until the other issues are
>> sorted lets remove DRIVER_PRIME.
>>
>> v2: also drop the dead code
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
> Yeah I'm ok with this too, but it pretty much means vgem is a thing for
> llvmpipe only. And then abusing dumb buffers is imo ok too, since I don't
> care too much what kind of horrors drivers pull of internally.
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
>
>
Well in the end, I'm happy whatever way as long as the root problem is
solved.

Acked-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>


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