[PATCH 3/4] drm: introduce DRM_CAP_ATOMIC_ASYNC_PAGE_FLIP

[Simon Ser]

On Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 at 12:24, Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > > The current behaviour is to fall back to a blit if the async
> > > flip fails. So you still get the same effective behaviour, just
> > > not as efficient. I think that's a reasonable way to handle it.
> >
> > That's purely an Xorg thing, right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >
> > Should Wayland compositors implement the same thing is a good question.
> 
> Is the whole tear+wayland situation more or less up in the air still?

The goal of the patches I'm sending is to allow Wayland compositors to request
tearing. We also have a WIP protocol extension for this [1].

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/65