[PATCH] DRM planes

[Alan Cox]

> We're talking about gpus, there's no way an application will talk to them
> than through some nice cozy abstraction layer like OpenGl, X, ... Even
> Wayland has gbm to do the low-level kms scanout allocation.

You are talking about scanouts. Nothing more. Nothing in KMS/DRM even
requires GPU accelerations.

> > However - user space is already working in fourcc, v4l has working fourcc
> > and dumping the mess on the user isn't going to be a win.
> 
> The mess will be dumped onto userspace anyway, but it won't be dumped onto
> the user - that one should use Xv or some fancy EGLImage extension.

Or quite likely in many embedded circumstances be working directly with
buffers and FourCC. Just like happens now with V4L. FourCC has its ugly
corners but its trivial to turn it into a table if you have a driver that
requires this. Old hat, old problem. Solved in AmigaOS in the 1980s.

Alan