>>> >>> We can disable it by default on exa - intel and amd/radeon drivers also >>> disable by default. However, on gpus >= maxwell only glamor accel is >>> supported and glamor on nouveau is either dri3/present or no hw accel at >>> all >>> afaics. >> >> >> You probably saw my patches to just remove glamor from nouveau :) That >> integration doesn't support DRI2, which in turn means no core contexts >> (due to lack of GLX_ARB_create_context_profile), and a slew of other >> issues. Seemed easier to just tell people to go use modesetting, which >> gets all of these things right(er). >> > > Hm, a total removal would at least make me and my users rather unhappy atm., > as without glamor no hw accel at all on >= maxwell. modesetting and nouveau > are not on par feature-wise atm. E.g., modesetting as of the next xorg 1.18 > server only provides pageflipping via dri3/present and without pageflipping > it is game over for many of my use cases on nouveau-kms. Also modesetting > currently completely lacks ZaphodHeads support. Without ZaphodHeads i can't > have a page-flipped fullscreen window on one subset of outputs and a regular > desktop on another subset, something that is needed for > neuroscience/medical/vr applications.
So what would you want in modesetting to be on par? DRI2 pageflipping? zaphod heads? anything else? I would like for F23 to ship a modesetting which I can replace intel/nouveau/ati with. Dave. _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
