xf86-video-armsoc, Mali and exynos4

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:26:13AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 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

There is of course more, and Siarhei already solved that. But basically, 
if it works with the binary, it works with lima. And Siarhei his xf86 
driver works with the binary driver and UMP.

Luc Verhaegen.