From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakob Bornecrantz Subject: Re: Radeon support state in libkms Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:21:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4D482D45.6080307@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f177.google.com (mail-yx0-f177.google.com [209.85.213.177]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2569D9E745 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by yxd30 with SMTP id 30so996849yxd.36 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:21:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Corbin Simpson Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Alexandre Demers List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Corbin Simpson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM, James Simmons wrote: >> >>> I was looking at the radeon support state in libkms and I found out the >>> following patch was proposed back in September, but never commented nor >>> merged. The patch was submitted by nobled. >>> >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-September/003740.html >>> >>> I applied it on the latest drm git version without any problem and >>> compilation looks fine. Is there a reason preventing it from being merged? >>> >>> If it needs testing, make your suggestion, I'll gladly make my best to >>> test it. >> >> Good point. Is KMS dead? Anyone? > > I was seriously hoping that Dave's dumb buffer API would go upstream > and that libkms would be able to use that generic path for all KMS > drivers, rather than needing shim code for every driver it supports. > > That said, yeah, the libkms maintainer probably should pull that code > in. Who is that, anyway? > > ~ C. That would probably be me. The "core" libkms changes are rb/acked and the radeon changes looks good so just go ahead and commit them anyways. Nobled do you have commit access to the drm repo? Cheers Jakob.