Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] DirectX on Linux

Pavel Machek
2020-06-16T10:51:25Z

Hi!

> > The driver creates the /dev/dxg device, which can be opened by user mode
> > application and handles their ioctls. The IOCTL interface to the driver
> > is defined in dxgkmthk.h (Dxgkrnl Graphics Port Driver ioctl
> > definitions). The interface matches the D3DKMT interface on Windows.
> > Ioctls are implemented in ioctl.c.
>
> Echoing what others said, you're not making a DRM driver. The driver should live outside
> of the DRM code.
>

Actually, this sounds to me like "this should not be merged into linux kernel". I mean,
we already have DRM API on Linux. We don't want another one, do we?

And at the very least... this misses API docs for /dev/dxg. Code can't really
be reviewed without that.

Best regards,
Pavel

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