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

[Giovanni Campagna]

2014-04-15 19:19 GMT+02:00 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>:
> 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?

This works on the DRM platform, not X11, so there is no DDX involved.
It was tested with the qxl and i915 (through LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE)
kernel drivers (some time ago...)

Giovanni