xf86-video-armsoc, Mali and exynos4

[Daniel Drake]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 06:57:37AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> Yes, it works reasonably well. Not perfect, I did catch a hang, and
>> 800x600 doesn't work quite right, but I think that is fixable. I'd
>> definitely invest more time into it if/when it seems like there is an
>> available X DDX with Mali around the corner.
>>
>> I assume you're referring to lima there?
>>
>> You mean, hack mali support into xf86-video-modesetting?
>
> All that needs is passing "lima" as a dri driver name:
>
> https://github.com/ssvb/xf86-video-fbturbo/commit/fed3148bad

I think I'm missing something there. If the only change to
xf86-video-modesetting required is pointing it to the DRI device node
offered by Mali/Lima on the kernel side, how is the image data going
to reach the display controller, which is only available on another
DRI device?

Daniel