[PATCH] VGA arbiter: No need for arbitration around CreateGC.

Tiago Vignatti tiago.vignatti at nokia.com
Wed Jul 14 06:19:11 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:35:12AM +0200, ext Jamey Sharp wrote:
> None of XAA, EXA, or UXA do any hardware access during CreateGC, so they
> don't need VGA arbitration. I haven't found any open source drivers that
> hook CreateGC, so they're safe. I'd be surprised if any driver directly
> hooks CreateGC and does hardware access from it and needs VGA
> arbitration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net>

as discussed already in private: 

    Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>


Cheers,
             Tiago


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