[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/7] st/va: add headless support, i.e. VA_DISPLAY_DRM

[Arnaud Vrac]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 20 October 2015 at 17:06, Julien Isorce <julien.isorce at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 19 October 2015 at 17:16, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 17 October 2015 at 00:14, Julien Isorce <julien.isorce at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > This patch allows to use gallium vaapi without requiring
> >> > a X server running for your second graphic card.
> >> >
> >> I've sent a lengthy series which should mitigate the need of some hunks.
> >
> >
> > Ok I'll wait for your patches to land before going further on this patch.
> > Should I expect vl_winsy_drm.c in your patches ? Not sure do understood
> that
> > part. Actually I though about having "vl_screen_create_drm" and renames
> > vl_screen_create to vl_screen_create_x11 (because it takes XDisplay in
> > params) but then I got confused because vl_winsys.h includes Xlib.h.
> Should
> > future vl_screen_create_drm be in another header, vl_drm.h ?
> >
> My series flattens the if GALLIUM_STATIC_TARGETS spaghetti. Although
> it's more of a FYI rather than "wait until they land".
>
> On the winsys_dri vs winsys_drm side - I'm not planning to do any work
> there, neither I did notice the Xlib.h dependency in vl_winsys.h.
>
> What I'm pondering is about having a 'proper' drm backend, although
> admittedly I haven't looked exactly what libva{-intel-driver,}'s
> definition of that is. I'd assume that moving the non-winsys specifics
> (from vl_winsys_dri.c) to vl_winsys.h and adding a
> vl_screen_texture_from_drawable() equivalent for drm (amongst others).
> As you can tell much of this is guesswork, so if you don't have the
> time and others are happy with the approach as is, feel free to
> ignore.
>

A wayland backend would be nice too. Right now vainfo under wayland just
crashes.

-- 
Arnaud
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