[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Turning swrast into DRI2 drivers

[Adam Jackson]

On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 02:25 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Some time ago I sent patches to enable the swrast driver on
> GBM/DRM, and I did them in the dumbest way possible (that is,
> having GBM implement the dri-swrast interface), to make sure
> it would work without kernel support.
> This patch series is a little smarter, in that it creates
> more than one KMS buffer and has llvmpipe render directly
> into the KMS buffer, so we don't need to copy from the back
> to the shadow (before the kernel copies from the shadow to
> the front).

Have you looked into making this work with -modesetting as the ddx
driver, not just qxl?

- ajax