[PATCH libdrm v2 00/25] Update Tegra support
Mikko Perttunen
cyndis at kapsi.fi
Tue Feb 22 08:41:05 UTC 2022
On 2/21/22 22:29, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 18.02.2022 12:31, Mikko Perttunen пишет:
>> On 2/17/22 21:16, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>> ...
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen at nvidia.com>
>>
>> Left one cosmetic comment in the VIC4.0 patch, but overall looks OK. I
>> think it would be fine to have some basic tests in libdrm as well.
>
> There is a question about who is going to use this libdrm API. Are you
> going to use it in the VAAPI driver?
>
> Grate drivers can't use this API because:
>
> 1. More features are needed
> 2. There is no stable API
> 3. It's super painful to keep all drivers and libdrm in sync from a
> packaging perspective.
>
> It's much more practical nowadays to use DRM directly, without
> SoC-specific libdrm API, i.e. to bundle that SoC-specific API within the
> drivers.
I'm not planning to use this in the VAAPI driver -- I don't personally
have any use case for the libdrm API.
Mikko
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