From: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, jcrouse@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:18:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2D3066.9040104@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilEKPmHKNDNbNpmUvcYC338YezLkNBc4ShfTFdp@mail.gmail.com>
Dave Airlie wrote:
> This is more about initial development stages. We maintain kernel
> API/ABI for all in-tree drivers, however before we put a driver into
> mainline, we usually need to redo the crazy interfaces that vendors
> have come up with. Like 32/64 alignment, passing userspace addresses
> into the kernel, passing phy addresses to userspace etc. If the
> userspace binary is closed that process becomes next to impossible.
My 2 cents:
I think we should leave the onus of fixing the userspace to work with
the sane kernel API with the entity trying to get their drivers into the
kernel. I think it's a better approach (as in, more likelihood of
getting device support) than saying, we will only allow fully open
sourced kernel drivers.
-Saravana
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-02 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 22:10 Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 22:10 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 22:36 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 22:36 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 22:51 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 22:51 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 22:57 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 22:57 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 23:29 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 23:29 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 23:37 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 23:37 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 23:37 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 0:08 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-02 0:08 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-02 0:08 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-02 0:13 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 0:13 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 0:18 ` Saravana Kannan [this message]
[not found] ` <AANLkTilsqmCZwLUNJhvDKkralHQZzlRV3ZxaIGbt9-xB@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-02 0:38 ` Timothy Meade
2010-07-02 0:42 ` Timothy Meade
2010-07-02 0:42 ` Timothy Meade
2010-07-02 2:46 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 2:46 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 2:46 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 3:01 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 3:01 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 3:01 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 4:54 ` Howard Chu
2010-07-02 4:54 ` Howard Chu
2010-07-02 6:52 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 6:52 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 6:52 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-14 13:24 ` Pavel Machek
2010-07-16 0:42 ` Tim HRM
2010-07-16 0:42 ` Tim HRM
2010-07-01 23:51 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 1:27 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-07-02 1:27 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-07-02 7:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-02 9:58 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-07-02 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-02 11:12 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-07-02 11:26 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 11:26 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 10:23 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 10:23 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 11:10 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-07-02 11:53 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 11:53 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 12:07 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-07-02 12:07 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-07-02 14:45 ` Xavier Bestel
2010-07-02 15:03 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-07-04 7:06 ` Magnus Wendt
2010-07-04 7:27 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-04 7:27 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-04 11:03 ` Theodore Tso
2010-07-04 15:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-07-04 15:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-07-04 20:05 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-04 20:05 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 14:01 ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-07-03 0:41 ` Ian Romanick
2010-07-03 0:41 ` Ian Romanick
2010-07-03 11:46 ` Garry Hurley
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