An inquiry about DRM Driver work for mainline.

David Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Thu Sep 22 06:03:49 PDT 2011


Hi Inki,

Well it seems that so far you've only done KMS work so you don't need to worry as much about a userspace. When you start adding driver specific acceleration ioctls then we'll have to allow for making sure an open userspace exists to work and demonstrate the new ioctls.

Dave.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Inki Dae" <inki.dae at samsung.com>
> To: airlied at linux.ie
> Cc: "kyungmin park" <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>, dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Thursday, 22 September, 2011 1:52:19 PM
> Subject: An inquiry about DRM Driver work for mainline.
> 
> Hello, Dave.
> 
> Now we are preparing Samsung SoC based DRM Driver patch v5 for
> mainline and
> it would be posted soon. I wonder that you want to open user side
> based on
> DRI2 of Xorg or just simple test application to have our driver
> accepted as
> prerequisite. If so, should we post it to libdrm or  is it enough to
> open
> independent user side repository? we would be happy you to give me
> your
> advice. if necessary then we are going to start additional work.
> thank you
> and I hope you have a great day.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Inki Dae.
> 
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