On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:45:07PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello, > > On 24 November 2012 22:09, Thierry Reding > <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > However, that has all the usual drawbacks of a fork so I thought maybe > > it would be better to write some code to xf86-video-modesetting to add > > GPU-specific acceleration on top. Such code could be leveraged by other > > drivers as well and all of them could share a common base for the > > functionality provided through the standard DRM IOCTLs. > > > > That approach has some disadvantages of its own, like the potential > > bloat if many GPUs do the same. It would also be a bit of a step back > > to the old monolithic days of X. > > > > You can always make the tegra part a submodule if you think putting it > into the driver directly is too monolithic. Good point. I suppose it could also be made selectable at compile time, similar to how things are done in libdrm. I'm not particularly worried about the monolithic aspect, but I wanted to bring it up for discussion and see what other people think. Thierry
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