On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/26/2012 07:01 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Thierry Reding >> <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >>> With the common base that could be shared I meant all the modesetting >>> code and framebuffer setup that xf86-video-modesetting already does. >>> I've been wanting to add support for planes as well, which comes with >>> another set of standard IOCTLs in DRM. >>> >>> Rewriting all of that in different drivers doesn't seem very desirable >>> to me and sounds like a lot of wasted effort. And that's not couting the >>> maintenance burden to keep up with the latest changes in the generic >>> modesetting driver. >>> >> >> You don't really end up rewriting it, most people just copy the >> modesetting driver, change the name, and start adding acceleration; in >> which case, the work is already done. Also, the generic code doesn't >> change much. Based on other ddxes, you rarely have to change the >> modesetting and framebuffer code. Most of the work ends up being the >> device specific acceleration and memory management code. >> Also, depending on what hardware is available, I'm not sure >> traditional 2D engines will gain much over shadowfb other than hw >> accelerated buffer swaps for GL. In my opinion something like glamor >> is the best bet for mapping legacy X APIs on to modern GL hw. > > Rather than have every driver cut/paste the modesetting code, can't the > modesetting core of the DDX be pulled out into a utility library or > similar, so that it can just be compiled/linked into all the DDXs > without actually duplicating the code? That way there's no code > duplication, but each DDX can still be flexible about all the > HW-specific code without making a monolithic DDX. >
If someone has the time to look into it further, it could probably be done. I'm not sure there would be much to share at the end however. Alex _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
