On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 05:42:15PM -0700, José Roberto de Souza wrote: > By now all the userspace applications should have migrated to atomic > or at least be calling DRM_IOCTL_MODE_DIRTYFB. > > With that we can kill frontbuffer rendering support in i915 for > modern platforms. > > So here converting legacy APIs into atomic commits so it can be > properly handled by driver i915. > > Several IGT tests will fail with this changes, because some tests > were stressing those frontbuffer rendering scenarios that no userspace > should be using by now, fixes to IGT should be sent soon. Blocking atomic commits instead of the current lightweight frontbuffer interface sounds like a terrible plan. How unusable is X with this approach? -- Ville Syrjälä Intel
