[PATCH v2 1/1] ARM: imx: add gpu device

[s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)]

Hi Mat,,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:36:33PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> We have a plan to port it to DRM, We even started for it. But it needs
> to work first, so we can get our reference on. Ports like this are
> best done slowly - you make it work, you do it piece by piece. We
> already did the GEM allocation and unified IPU and GPU memory
> allocation (after all framebuffer memory *is* texture memory on every
> other graphics card and the IPU/VPU/GPU need to be able to access each
> other's memory - they all share an EMI/AXI arbiter anyway). That in
> itself allows us to lock down the GPU using the AMD MMU which defines
> a 32MB-aligned window which the GPU can write into (otherwise the GPU
> can touch system memory). Then we just need to do the command stream
> stuff and properly port the IPU framebuffer to DRM Connectors and
> Encoders, so XRandR will magically work, we can stop using fbdevhw
> evil, and so on.

That's very good news. I hope you make good progress in this.

Once there is source code available which is useful to anything else but
provide a stub for a binary only userspace driver I'm of course open for
merging it.

Sascha


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