It looks like I was mistaken -- a primary node is always allocated. Sorry!
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:28 AM Mathias Fröhlich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Emil, > > Ok, I thought Ilja is a reference here. In this case forget that change! > Thanks! > > best > > Mathias > > On Friday, 28 June 2019 18:26:07 CEST Emil Velikov wrote: > > On 2019/06/28, [email protected] wrote: > > > From: Mathias Fröhlich <[email protected]> > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Ilia mentioned that there are drm rendernode only drivers out there. > > > To support an egl device on those platforms, make the EGL_EXT_device_drm > > > device extension optional. > > > > > Currently DRM core mandates that primary node is available, even for GPU > > only devices. > > > > A while back, we had a chat with kernel people why we do so. IIRC the > > conclustion was that existing userspace will just work, since it already > > must handle cases when you unplug your only monitor. > > > > I think Ilia was having a pretty reasonable assumption, that's why I did > > before digging deeper, as opposed to saying there _are_ such cases. > > > > HTH > > Emil > > > > > > _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
