[PATCH] dri2: Don't block GLX clients on VT switch

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Jun 29 13:33:57 PDT 2011


On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:53:14 -0400, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

> This was necessary in DRI1 for a variety of reasons (SAREA ownership,
> VRAM layout, etc).  None of that is relevant to DRI2.  Tested with Gnome
> 3 on an Ironlake GPU.

Yeah, I can't see how you can use DRI2 (which has no locking for GPU
access) without a competent kernel driver that can handle rendering
requests while a non-X VT is active.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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