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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To: "José Roberto de Souza" <jose.souza@intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Gwan-gyeong Mun <gwan-gyeong.mun@intel.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 7/8] drm/i915/display/skl+: Drop frontbuffer rendering support
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:55:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YR0fWUHZk9/4o33s@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210818004216.220279-8-jose.souza@intel.com>

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 05:42:15PM -0700, José Roberto de Souza wrote:
> By now all the userspace applications should have migrated to atomic
> or at least be calling DRM_IOCTL_MODE_DIRTYFB.
> 
> With that we can kill frontbuffer rendering support in i915 for
> modern platforms.
> 
> So here converting legacy APIs into atomic commits so it can be
> properly handled by driver i915.
> 
> Several IGT tests will fail with this changes, because some tests
> were stressing those frontbuffer rendering scenarios that no userspace
> should be using by now, fixes to IGT should be sent soon.

Blocking atomic commits instead of the current lightweight frontbuffer
interface sounds like a terrible plan. How unusable is X with this
approach?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-18 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-18  0:42 [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/8] Drop frontbuffer rendering support from Skylake and newer José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/8] drm/damage_helper: Fix handling of cursor dirty buffers José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/8] drm/i915/display: Drop PSR support from HSW and BDW José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/8] drm/i915/display: Move DRRS code its own file José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  7:24   ` Jani Nikula
2021-08-19  0:44     ` Souza, Jose
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/8] drm/i915/display: Some code improvements and code style fixes for DRRS José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 5/8] drm/i915/display: Share code between intel_edp_drrs_flush and invalidate José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/8] drm/i915/display: Prepare DRRS for frontbuffer rendering drop José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 7/8] drm/i915/display/skl+: Drop frontbuffer rendering support José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18 14:55   ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2021-08-18 19:48     ` Souza, Jose
2021-08-19 16:07       ` Ville Syrjälä
2021-08-25  0:49         ` Souza, Jose
2021-08-25 12:47           ` Ville Syrjälä
2021-08-25 13:43             ` Ville Syrjälä
2021-08-26  1:23               ` Souza, Jose
2021-08-24  7:21   ` Daniel Vetter
2021-08-18  0:42 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 8/8] drm/i915/display: Drop PSR " José Roberto de Souza
2021-08-18  1:12 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for Drop frontbuffer rendering support from Skylake and newer Patchwork
2021-08-18  1:14 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.SPARSE: " Patchwork
2021-08-18  1:45 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: failure " Patchwork

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