[Spice-devel] [PATCH] Revert "drm/qxl: drop prime import/export callbacks"

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 4:38 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> > > More useful would be some way to signal this self-reimport capability
> > > to userspace somehow.  See DRM_PRIME_CAP_LOCAL patch.
> >
> > Userspace is supposed to test whether import/export works for a
> > specific combo, not blindly assume it does and then keel over. I think
> > we need to fix that, not add more flags - there's lots of reasons why
> > a given pair of devices can't share buffers (e.g. all the contiguous
> > allocations stuff on socs).
>
> Ok.  Lets scratch the DRM_PRIME_CAP_LOCAL idea then and blame userspace
> instead.
>
> > > Right now I have the choice to set DRM_PRIME_CAP_{IMPORT,EXPORT}, in
> > > which case some userspace assumes it can do cross-driver export/import
> > > and trips over that not working.  Or I do not set
> > > DRM_PRIME_CAP_{IMPORT,EXPORT}, which breaks DRI3 ...
> >
> > Yeah that's not an option.
>
> Good.  Can I get an ack for this patch then, as it unbreaks DRI3 with qxl?

Oh sure, acked-by: me. Sorry forgot to supply that ...
-Daniel
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