On Friday, October 31, 2008 4:01 am Thomas Hellström wrote:
> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > This commit adds the core mode setting routines for use by DRM drivers to
> > manage outputs and displays.  Originally based on the X.Org Randr 1.2
> > implementation, the code has since been heavily changed by Dave Airlie
> > with contributions by Jesse Barnes, Jakob Bornecrantz and others.
> >
> > This one should probably be split up a bit; I think the TTM stuff in
> > particular could be factored out fairly easily.
>
> Jesse,
> We must split out TTM from anything that goes into DRM next for now, as
> we're about to re-add it in a device dependant
> form with a well defined kernel only API. (This is probably going to
> happen within a couple of weeks).
>
> A minimal user-space API will be added when there are drivers supporting
> it. I guess the first one will be a reworked via driver following up
> with other work.
>
> So for now, I guess the best thing is to strip the TTM parts completely
> and not consider the drivers that rely on it.
>
> I have a patch lying around that strips TTM from modesetting-gem and
> disables the build of radeon, radeon-ms and nouvea, if that would help...

Yeah that would help a bit.  I'm not in a position to push those bits anyway, 
so it would be good if my next set of patches didn't have any TTM or radeon 
bits...

Thanks,
Jesse


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