[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] pipe-loader: use radeonsi for MM if amdgpu dri is used

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2019-07-11 8:08 p.m., Marek Olšák wrote:
> From: Jeremy Newton <Jeremy.Newton at amd.com>
> 
> The amdgpu dri is used for the closed source AMD driver. Since this driver
> does not implement multimedia, we fall back to radeonsi in mesa to do
> multimedia. This corrects the dri driver name for when it is set to amdgpu.

"Gallium driver name" instead of "dri driver name" might make it
slightly clearer why this is done.

Also, might be worth adding something to the commit log that this will
allow dropping the amdgpu-pro specific GBM implementation in favour of
Mesa's.

Either way,

Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>


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