[PATCH xserver] glamor: Work around GEM usage

[Emil Velikov]

On 23 May 2018 at 22:23, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
>> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 22:58:05 +0200
>>
>> 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.
>
> OpenBSD doesn't implement dri3 (yet)
AFAICT other BSDs like FreeBSD, DragonFly and NetBSD are in the same boat.

That said I think we should incentivise them to implement it sooner
than later.

-Emil