[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/9] gallium/dri2: Set winsys_handle type to KMS for stride query.

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 14:12 +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 05:11 AM, christopher.halse.rogers at canonical.com wrote:
> > From: Christopher James Halse Rogers <raof at ubuntu.com>
> >
> > Otherwise the default is TYPE_SHARED, which will flink the bo. This seems
> > rather unnecessary for a simple stride query.
> 
> Is there no way we can cache this stuff in a __DRIimage? Changing the 
> calling conventions to adapt to poor implementations seems like
> the wrong way to go. What if other drivers use a slow approach to get 
> the KMS handle?
> 

Do you want me to add some extra gallium API to get this sort of image
metadata without using what's essentially a side-effect of
resource_get_handle? If this isn't a theoretical concern I can certainly
do so.