On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Keith Packard<kei...@keithp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 11:37 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
>> Might be useful to bring up a shadowfb or noaccel X if the user is
>> having accel problems, just to have a desktop.
>
> That's been the traditional answer, but at this point, NoAccel is a
> completely separate path through our driver as it requires that the
> framebuffer be mapped to userspace at driver startup time, rather than
> only during unaccelerated operations.
>
> Which means that instead of being a reasonable 'fail over' plan, it
> turns out to just be an additional source of bugs. In fact, noaccel has
> never worked with KMS, and yet we've seen no reports of trouble...

How about having your accel prepare funcs return false when noaccel is set.

Alex

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