pull request: output and offload complete tree

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 02:50:09 PDT 2012


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 July 2012 21:09, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> can this be used to start an X server with dummy driver as output and
>>>> a real card for rendering?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> And what is so different about dummy compared to an usb dongle that it
>> cannot be used in this case?
>
> He asked about offload not output slaving.
>
> offload requires a primary renderer and a secondary renderer.\


sorry sorta misread,

but dummy is dumb, doesn't have any access to a kernel driver for
buffer sharing.

Dave.
>
> Dave.


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