[PATCH driver/intel] Allow copy_front() to fail and clean up gracefully if it does
Egbert Eich
eich at suse.com
Wed Sep 24 04:23:26 PDT 2014
Chris Wilson writes:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> >
> > For panning one needs to be able to draw into the screen pixmap outside
> > of the area exposed by the crtc.
>
> Note that the screen pixmap still exists and is drawn into by the
> clients. What should happen with the panning is that the CRTC is updated
> through set_mode_major which invalidates the new CRTC location in the big
> screen Pixmap and the contents copied during the next shadow update.
>
> That's the theory at least...
Ok, so this isn't working. I will look into this as it's easy for me
to trigger this situation.
But this still doesn't address the failing sna_create_screen_resources().
Cheers,
Egbert.
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