[Mesa-dev] [RFC] freedreno: import libdrm_freedreno + redesign submit

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:34 PM Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 17:19, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:27 AM Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > NOTE: if bisecting a build error takes you hear, try a clean build.
> > > > > There are a bunch of ways things can go wrong if you still have
> > > > > libdrm_freedreno cflags.
> > > >
> > > > Good note!
> > > > (and s/hear/here/)
> > > >
> > > Or to make the note disappear and minimise the chance to even getting
> > > here you can try the following:
> > >  - patch 1 - dummy copy, mention the sha used as base
> > >  - patch 2/3/4 - wire up Autoconf/Android/meson
> > >  - patch 5/... - polish (remove freedreno_drmif.h includes and others)
> > >
> >
> > fwiw, I'm not planning to remove libdrm_freedreno any time soon,
> > because (a) new libdrm vs old mesa combo, and (b) I do have some other
> > small utils that use libdrm_freedreno.  I'm just planning to not
> > change it.
> >
> Fair enough. I guess those tools will not benefit from the reduced CPU
> cycled, to warrant a rewrite.
>
> I would greatly appreciate if you can split things as mentioned earlier though.
> After all you've used the exact same approach to create the lot.
>

Too late on that, it is already merged.  I had considered trying to
split up into (1) import, plus (2) redesign, but there was too much
churn related to converting the code over to mesa utils / data
structures / etc, so I gave up.

BR,
-R