[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa] meson: add missing tegra vdpau driver

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Ilia Mirkin (2018-12-06 09:39:25)
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 12:17 PM Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, 2018-12-06 12:07:06 -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> > > Under what circumstances would tegra have a vdpau implementation?
> >
> > I don't know about that, but this patch brings meson on par with
> > autotools. Are you saying autotools was wrong and it should be removed
> > there instead?
> >
> > FtR, src/gallium/targets/vdpau/Makefile.am includes
> > src/gallium/drivers/tegra/Automake.inc which adds tegra to the
> > TARGET_DRIVERS, which in turn produces libvdpau_tegra.so
> >
> > If this was wrong, then that include on line 60 of
> > src/gallium/targets/vdpau/Makefile.am should be removed.
> >
> > This line was added by Thierry Reding (cc'ed) when he first introduced
> > tegra support in 1755f608f5201e0a23f00 "tegra: Initial support".
> 
> I'd like to hear tagr opine on this, but AFAIK tegra is a
> renderonly-style driver, which uses nouveau as its actual rendering
> backend. While nouveau does support VDPAU, the decoding engines are
> not available as part of the GPU device on Tegra platforms. They still
> have decoders, they're just separate platform devices (which I suspect
> operate very similarly to their desktop GPU counterparts, but that's a
> separate matter).
> 
>   -ilia

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