[PATCH] [rfc] drm: add some caps for userspace to discover more info for dumb KMS driver

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 02:27:35 PDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> I don't think that matters for this driver, its totally not for
>> acceleration, write a real driver if you have some case where copying
>> algorithms are going to matter.
>
>
> It will matter if you want a generic dumb server that can handle stuff
> like PCI cards as well, but in fact it may well be best if the X server
> simply does some timings.

probably makes sense to just rename the shadow preferred attribute to
dumb_bos_are_cached or something.

Dave.


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