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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:32:10 +1000
From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
ML dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
"open list:VIRTIO GPU DRIVER"
<virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtgpu: mark as a render gpu
On 11 September 2015 at 01:04, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com> wrote:
> On 10 September 2015 at 15:52, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> > Dave? Looking at the ioctls they are all fine for render nodes, there
>>> > isn't anything modesetting related in the device-specific ioctls.
>>> >
>>> > Correct?
>>> >
>>> Unless I've overdone the coffee this time - modesetting is done via
>>> the card# node, while render via either card# or renderD#.
>>
>> Exactly, thats why anything modesetting-related must be disabled for
>> renderD#. Looking at the virtio-gpu device-specific ioctls I don't
>> think there is anything doing modesetting (which we would have to leave
>> out), so we can apply DRM_RENDER_ALLOW everythere I think. Or maybe
>> there is a global switch to flip DRM_RENDER_ALLOW for the whole list ...
>>
> IMHO the idea of having a 'global' switch sounds quite good, yet there
> isn't one atm :-( It will be quite useful as we get more render only
> devices.
> DRIVER_RENDER doesn't do that unfortunately (which I think was the
> original assumption), it only instructs drm core to create the
> renderD# device/node.
doh, yes we need to add DRM_RENDER_ALLOW to the ioctls, can you do that?
Dave.
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