[PATCH xserver] glamor: Work around GEM usage

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Wed May 23 20:58:05 UTC 2018


On 05/23/2018 08:00 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 11:14 +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>> KMS drivers are not required to support GEM. In particular, vmwgfx
>> doesn't support flink and handles and names are identical.
>> Getting a bo name should really be part of a lower level API, if needed,
>> but in the mean time work around this by setting the name identical to
>> the handle if GEM isn't supported.
> I'd thought flink was old and busted anyway. Could this path just go
> away?
>
> - ajax

I guess it's needed for dri2? If all drivers using glamor are OK with 
dropping dri2, then that should be OK.

/Thomas



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