[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] i915: Drop legacy execbuffer support

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 08:04, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>
> Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> writes:
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> > libdrm has supported the newer execbuffer2 ioctl and using it by default
> > when it exists since libdrm commit b50964027bef249a0cc3d511de05c2464e0a1e22
> > which landed Mar 2, 2010.  The i915 and i965 drivers in Mesa at the time
> > both used libdrm and so did the Intel X11 back-end.  The SNA back-end
> > for X11 has always used execbuffer2.
>
> All execbuffer users in the past that I'm aware of used libdrm, which
> now uses the execbuffer2 ioctl for this API. That means these
> applications will remain ABI compatible through this change.
>
> Acked-by: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>

Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>

Dave.