Radeon support state in libkms

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Corbin Simpson
<mostawesomedude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM, James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I was looking at the radeon support state in libkms and I found out the
>>> following patch was proposed back in September, but never commented nor
>>> merged. The patch was submitted by nobled.
>>>
>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-September/003740.html
>>>
>>> I applied it on the latest drm git version without any problem and
>>> compilation looks fine. Is there a reason preventing it from being merged?
>>>
>>> If it needs testing, make your suggestion, I'll gladly make my best to
>>> test it.
>>
>> Good point. Is KMS dead? Anyone?
>
> I was seriously hoping that Dave's dumb buffer API would go upstream
> and that libkms would be able to use that generic path for all KMS
> drivers, rather than needing shim code for every driver it supports.
>
> That said, yeah, the libkms maintainer probably should pull that code
> in. Who is that, anyway?
>
> ~ C.

That would probably be me.

The "core" libkms changes are rb/acked and the radeon changes looks
good so just go ahead and commit them anyways. Nobled do you have
commit access to the drm repo?

Cheers Jakob.