[Lima] Difference to the blob / atomic modesetting

[Neil Armstrong]

Hi,

On 22/10/2020 14:32, Thomas Rohloff wrote:
> Thanks for this, will handle it to the CoreELEC devs as it seems atomic modesetting isn't working there.

Can you precise the platform ?

> Now to the other question: Does anyone have a feature diff (between lima and the blob) at hand?

Not a diff, but a relatively recent update since AFAIK not much has changed since:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwTDgn-SKGo

Neil

> 
> 22.10.2020 13:31:59 Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>:
> 
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On 22/10/2020 13:08, Thomas Rohloff wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I asked the CoreELEC devs for the (feature) differences between lima and the 4.9 blob driver with a highlight on atomic modesetting as it seems the blob doesn't use that. They told me to ask you directly, so I'm doing that in here.
>>
>> The atomic modesetting (by it's name) is the responsability of the Display Driver.
>>
>> The blob compiled for GBM, X11 or Wayland are used with an atomic modesetting DRM driver, we are running Kodi using the blob with the GBM or Wayland backend for a while now.
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>> I'm doing all this in the hope to get CoreELEC devs to switch from the 4.9 kernel to upstream, replacing the blob with Lima while doing so.>
>>> Thanks in advance for your replies,
>>> Thomas
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