[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2] dri: allow 16bit R/GR images to be exported via drm buffers

[Ben Widawsky]

On 17-02-26 19:19:39, Emil Velikov wrote:
>On 11 January 2017 at 15:43, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
>> On 17-01-05 16:58:56, Rainer Hochecker wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Rainer Hochecker <fernetmenta at online.de>
>>>
>>> This allows eglCreateImageKHR to access P010 surfaces created by vaapi
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rainer Hochecker <fernetmenta at online.de>
>>
>> Acked-by: Ben Widawky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
>>
>There was a request to get this in -stable. Personally I'm split with
>a slight inclination towards rejecting it.
>It's very nicely isolated [regression wise] but a new feature after all.
>
>Looking at the kernel parts - just merged in 4.11 which will be out in
>~2 months... around the same time mesa 17.1. Which makes me lean even
>more towards no.
>
>Do we have (m)any compelling reasons to have this in 17.0 ?
>
>Thanks
>Emil

I don't have one, and I agree with you in this case Emil.