[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 15/19] mesa: hook up UUID queries for driver and device

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Thu Jul 6 00:09:58 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> >
> > This is something I've been on the fence about for a while, mostly
> > because the vulkan and gl driver for mesa come out of the same source
> > base.
>
> In addition to the issues raised by Jason, radv isn't the only Vulkan
> driver for AMD GPUs.
>
>
> I don't think Andres patch should be made jump through hoops for a driver
> that isn't open source. AMD are free to provide patches to support this use
> case but asking anyone outside AMD to care for a piece of software that
> isn't
> open source, isn't a very nice thing to do.
>
> From reading Jason's requests it does look like just leave it to the
> drivers to
> sort out is the best option,
>

Thank you.  I think that's the best option too.


> and for radeonsi/radv we could go with a static
> string as we at least share addrlib in this world. Beyond that I think AMD
> would
> need to propose later patch for interop with the pro driver.
>

But what if addrlib changes? :-)  If you have any arbitrary decisions in
surface layout that are made using a heuristic, then you need to at least
make this some sort of addrlib version.  Now I'm just trolling...
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