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

[Jason Ekstrand]

On March 11, 2021 20:26:06 "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit at intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:00:49 -0800, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
>> ---
>> .../gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c    | 100 ------------------
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ioctls.h    |   2 -
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c               |   2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 103 deletions(-)
>
> Don't we want to clean up references to legacy execbuffer in
> include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h too?

I thought about that but Daniel said we should leave them. Maybe a comment 
is in order?

--Jason

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