[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] RFC i965: Bypass a couple of libraries for syscall on x84_64

Eric Engestrom eric.engestrom at imgtec.com
Tue Jun 20 17:06:07 UTC 2017


On Tuesday, 2017-06-20 09:56:25 -0700, Chad Versace wrote:
> On Tue 20 Jun 2017, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure why avoiding drmIoctl is even a thing, there are plenty
> > of huge optimisation opportunities, this just seems like a feel good
> > pointless microptimisation.
> 
> There is very little usage of libdrm remaining in i965. If the last bit
> were dropped, then I believe Chromium OS would no longer have to
> maintain an Android-fork of libdrm for its Android container.

Why the fork? Are the changes incompatible with upstream libdrm?


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