On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org> > wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 11:30:06PM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: >>> > I'm not sure whether / how you handle the case of hardware render to >>> > cursor surfaces on i915, but it seems to me like if a lot of drivers >>> > need to implement driver specific "tricks" to meet the semantics of >>> > a generic interface, we should perhaps consider specifying those >>> > semantics in a way that helps avoid driver-specific workarounds? >>> >>> We don't handle really hanlde rendering to cursor objects. I think the >>> "require a set_cursor after every cursor bo change" semantic is good, I've >>> just feared that when only vmgfx needs this, no generic kms user will >>> actually implement it. But nouveau seems to require this too, so I think >>> at least for this case reality (and generic kms clients) will play along. >> >> I know this is a bit off topic but I see two approaches to the cursor api. >> One is the nouveau method which is >> >> ... >> ? ? ? ?drm_gem_object_lookup >> ? ? ? ?internal_mmap gem object >> ? ? ? ?copy to another internally allocated buffer objec >> ? ? ? ?unmap gem object >> ? ? ? ?drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked >> ... >> >> Or the radeon approach >> >> ... >> ? ? ? ?drm_gem_object_lookup >> ? ? ? ?gem_object_pin >> ? ? ? ?program cursor location >> ? ? ? ?gem_object_unpin >> ? ? ? ?drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked >> ... >> >> What are the pros and cons to each method? >> _______________________________________________ >> dri-devel mailing list >> dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel >> > > Copying means you can convert the cursor to another format if needed. > > -- > Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the > river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. >
Also no worries about strange side effects if people decide to render to the cursor. Although i don't know if this is really an issue. -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say.
