Linux 3.4-rc1

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 05:31:57 PDT 2012


On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Rob Clark <rob.clark at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>  - drm dma-buf prime support. Dave Airlie sent me the pull request but
>> didn't push very hard for it, it's in my "ok, I can still pull it for
>> 3.4 if individual DRM driver people tell me that it will make their
>> lives easier." So this is in limbo - I have nothing against it, but I
>> won't pull unless I get a few people say "yes, please".
>
> yes, please :-)
>
> Note that the core drm dma-buf/prime support has already been reviewed
> by a lot of folks, and tested with a few different drivers (exynos,
> omapdrm, i915, nouveau, udl) with some driver support that could be
> pushed for 3.5 cycle if the core support makes it in for 3.4 cycle.

Please.  It's the first step in making hybrid laptops work properly in Linux.

Alex


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