On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dave Airlie <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This sounds like what we want, do we have any examples of this sort of
>> thing already, I could take a look tomorrow, though it would be a bit of
>> a change to drivers that currently allocate privates.
>
> Not that I know of. In ancient times, cfb and mfb "shared" a block of
> privates by using the same private index with different contents.
>
> Adding this notion to the privates code should be pretty easy; it just
> makes the screen-related object sizes screen-specific.
>
>> well modesetting Init adds the private allocation, but since nobody binds to
>> it initially it never gets its private allocated, until something hotplugs 
>> later
>> then it increases after CSR has run.
>
> I can't find any private allocation done by the modesetting driver; did
> I miss it?

Look in my repo prime branch, all the driver hacks are in prime
branches in my personal repos.

Dave.
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