[PATCH] kernel/drm: vblank wait on crtc > 1

Ilija Hadzic ihadzic at research.bell-labs.com
Sun Mar 20 16:47:21 PDT 2011


sorry about that, I use pine and thought that's as plain as it gets. I 
guess next time I'll try just 'mail' from command line.



On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Dave Airlie wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Ilija Hadzic
> <ihadzic at research.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Below is a patch against drm-next branch of 2.6.38-rc8+ kernel that adds the
>> capability to wait on vblank events for CRTCs that are greater than 1 and
>> thus cannot be represented with primary/secondary flags in the legacy
>> interface. It was discussed on the dri-devel list in these two threads:
>>
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-March/009009.html
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-March/009025.html
>>
>> This patch extends the interface to drm_wait_vblank ioctl so that crtc>1 can
>> be represented. It also adds a new capability to drm_getcap ioctl so that
>> the user space can check whether the new interface to drm_wait_vblank is
>> supported (and fall back to the legacy interface if not)
>
> Yeah I'm happy with this, however your mail reader seems to have eaten
> the patch.
>
> I've rescued it locally, but next time please make sure the patch
> hasn't been whitespace damaged on the way out.
>
> lots of spaces before tabs added.
>
> Dave.
>


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