[git pull] drm for 5.8-rc1

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Sep 1 10:42:25 UTC 2020


Hi,

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 08:13, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> I think right thing to do is *shrug*, please use modifiers. They're meant
> to solve these kind of problems for real, adding more hacks to paper over
> userspace not using modifiers doesn't seem like a good idea.
>
> Wrt dri3, since we do client-side allocations and don't have modifiers, we
> have to pessimistically assume we'll get scanned out. Modifiers and
> relevant protocol is fixing this again, but for tegra where we essentially
> can't get this right that leaves us in a very tough spot.

DRI3 has had modifiers for a couple/few years now ...

Cheers,
Daniel


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