[PATCH mach64] mach64: add a "DRI" option

Jamey Sharp jamey at minilop.net
Fri Jul 15 11:28:16 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 02:07:40PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Mika Blanc <mika.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds a boolean "DRI" option to the mach64 driver. Direct
> > rendering can be either enabled (default) or disabled with this option.
> 
> Is DRI enabled by default really the right thing to do for a driver
> whose DRM components never made it upstream into the Linux kernel?

As I read the patch, it leaves the existing behavior alone but adds the
option to explicitly disable DRI. So I assume that somewhere outside the
diff context is code to try using DRI, and fall back to non-DRI if
needed. As a result, this seems like a sensible patch to me.

Jamey
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