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

Sasha Levin
2020-06-16T13:28:23Z

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:51:13PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>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?

This driver doesn't have any display functionality.

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

The docs live here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/d3dkmthk/

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Thanks,
Sasha