[PATCH] [RFC] xf86: add glamor preferred probing

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Sep 17 07:47:09 PDT 2015


On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 14:57 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> 
> This patch adds an interface to query and ask DDX if
> they would prefer to use modesetting/glamor for a particular
> hw configuration, and if so to fail probing on that hw,
> so that modesetting gets picked up.

I think this is better phrased as "would prefer to use modesetting", or
even "would prefer to use a generic driver". glamor's a detail, on
G200SE for example glamor's not going to be a win but modesetting is
going to be better than mga.

- ajax


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