On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 06:04:15PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:09:16PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > Now, I know you're working on getting rid of this entirely for i915, but > > > what about that MSM driver? Will we continue to need it there, is > > > anybody actually maintaining that thing? > > > > Rob Clark is, and since he's a one-man gpu driver team with other > > responsibilities it might take even longer than for i915 :( > > Fair enough. For my information, how much a of copy/paste job from i915 > was that? Could he, in principle, copy/paste your changes to get rid of > this back into MSM without too much effort, or have things diverged > greatly since the initial copy/paste? Probably diverged too much already, and on top the big part is the command submission, and that's entirely driver/hw specific. But etnaviv is a plain gem driver which uses per-bo locking, and there's all the ttm drivers with similar designs, so there's plenty of templates. But it's not just copypasta for sure. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
