On 13 December 2016 at 09:46, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hm, I thought the grand plan is to use -modesetting almost everywhere and >>> forget about all the others? >> >> Maybe if you mean s/grand plan/pipe dream/ ... > > I said "almost everywhere", not "everywhere". I'm fully aware that > there's tons of old chips that need dedicated drivers, and that amd > wants to do some fancy stuff in their -pro version. But besides those > I do see a fairly clear push towards having standardized/generic kms > userspace, so don't really see that much value in updating all the > vendor specific drivers. And outside of X the push is even stronger. > > So no pipe dream at all, it's happening. Precisely. As Michel pointed out: There will [always] be compelling reasons why users/distros prefer xf86-video-foo over the modesetting one. So, barring time concerns, updating those is good idea, imho. Pretty we don't want another DRIVER_KMS_LEGACY_CONTEXT, because user X decided to stay with the final version of xf86-video-foo which still uses nasty libdrm/ioctl Y ;-) Thanks Emil _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
