[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix drm leases being broken on radv

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Apr 18 10:53:40 UTC 2019


On 2019-04-18 12:35 p.m., Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> - We've implemented rendernodes as a clean/new uapi years ago. git
> says we've made them the default in 2014.
> 
> - Lots of work happened to make render nodes the main thing. Despite
> all that effort (well over 5 years, and a few more, initial render
> nodes merge was 2013), adoption is fairly lack-luster and defacto uapi
> is "use primary nodes, cause it works if you're root".

FWIW, xf86-video-amdgpu/ati have been using render nodes for the DRM FDs
sent to DRI3 clients since the 1.3/7.9 releases from March 2017.
Xwayland will do the same in the next xserver release. A notable holdout
is the Xorg modesetting driver.


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