[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] gbm: Use libkms to work around missing cursor support in dri drivers

[Scott Moreau]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob at vmware.com>
> wrote:
> > Uses libkms to work around missing dri image cursor support. One could
> take
> > this patch one step futher and removing cursor surfaces entirely from
> the DRI
> > interface and as a consequence also from the Gallium interface. Tho to
> make
> > everybody happy with this it would probably require adding a kms_bo_write
> > function, but that is probably wise in anyways.
> >
> > The only downside is that it adds a dependancy on libkms, this could how
> ever
> > be replaced with the dumb_bo drm ioctl interface.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob at vmware.com>
>
> That looks good, using libkms is a fine way to handle this as long as
> it doesn't leak through the gbm API.  Using libkms or dumb_bo ioctl
> entirely for cursor gbm bo's would be fine too.
>
> Reviewed-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net>
>

I briefly tested these patches on RV350 and it fixes the problem here
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52267
I did notice that the last frame of the last instance of weston is
'flashed' during the fade-in when running the next instance of weston.
A small quirk considering.

Tested-by: Scott Moreau <oreaus at gmail.com>
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