[Mesa-dev] [Patch] Sharing flags should disable tiling

[Marek Olšák]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Stéphane Marchesin
<stephane.marchesin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Other than hybrid systems (of which
>> there are none with i915 graphics), is there any case where
>> __DRI_IMAGE_USE_SHARE can occur?
>
> You could do interesting things like cross-process sharing with it. I
> think it's worth doing it, no matter what. It's easy to pick up now,
> and hard to fix up later.

Cross-process sharing is mandatory already and exposed via
resource_from_handle and resource_get_handle. I don't think this is
useful for cross-process sharing anyway, because it disables tiling.

Marek