[PATCH 1/2] drm/hyperv: Add DRM driver for hyperv synthetic video device
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Jan 5 11:04:38 UTC 2021
Hi,
> > It's not possible to do page flip with this virtual device. The call to
> > SYNTHVID_VRAM_LOCATION is only honoured once. So unfortunately need to
> > use SHMEM helpers.
>
> I was thinking about using struct video_output_situation.vram_offset; in
> case you want to tinker with that. There's a comment in the patch that
> vram_offset should always be 0. But this comment seems incorrect for devices
> with more than one output.
Where does the comment come from? fbdev drivers support a single
framebuffer only so for a fbdev driver it makes sense to set the offset
to 0 unconditionally. With drm you probably can handle things
differently ...
take care,
Gerd
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