[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] pl111: Rename the pl111 driver to "kmsro".

Alyssa Rosenzweig alyssa at rosenzweig.io
Thu Jan 24 16:30:09 UTC 2019


> I don't think we have any cases of 2 different embedded GPUs in one
> system (but SoC vendors have done crazier things) and the number of
> GPUs is not a huge set.
> 
> Also, if we require some config file to tell us what GPU, then we
> still have to update that config file for each and every new system.
> I'd rather see things work by default and we only need a config file
> for the special cases.

I agree with this -- Panfrost/Rockchip and Panfrost/Meson are identical,
just as Lima/Rockchip and Panfrost/Sunxi are identical, etc. If
hypothetically we had an i.MX Mali SoC, well, great, that's still
identical to Panfrost/imx! No need for further special cases on our end.


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