On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:48:03PM +0000, Souza, Jose wrote: > On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 17:55 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > 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? > > 100% usable, had no issues when running X in TGL and ADL-P. > Added a debug message in intel_user_framebuffer_dirty() and X is not even using frontbuffer rendering at all. Turn off your compositor if you want to test front buffer rendering. -- Ville Syrjälä Intel
