On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:45:50AM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote: > On 11/24/2012 01:09 PM, Thierry Reding wrote: > >Hi, > > > >With tegra-drm going into Linux 3.8 and NVIDIA posting initial patches > >for 2D acceleration on top of it, I've been looking at the various ways > >how this can best be leveraged. > > > >The most obvious choice would be to start work on an xf86-video-tegra > >driver that uses the code currently in the works to implement the EXA > >callbacks that allow some of the rendering to be offloaded to the GPU. > >The way I would go about this is to fork xf86-video-modesetting, do some > >rebranding and add the various bits required to offload rendering. > > From a purely logistical standpoint, if you do choose to create a > fork, calling it xf86-video-tegra might be a problem since there's > already an existing tegra_drv.so. Right, you already use that name. Anyone have any great ideas for a new name? > You could probably graft tegradrm support onto xf86-video-nv pretty > easily, if you want to reuse an existing driver package. I think I'd rather go with a fork of the modesetting driver since it already provides everything that we need and only the acceleration bits need to be added on top. Thierry
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