Re: libdrm_amdgpu being forked and merged into Mesa

On 2024-10-25 17:57, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 4:36 PM Michel Dänzer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     On 2024-10-25 12:18, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> 
>     > (not to mention that it would mean that any users would need to use libdrm_amdgpu. Given that the most likely combination of GBM with shared fd/handle stuff is kernel modesetting and nobody uses libdrm_amdgpu with that, having a shared libdrm_amdgpu would not help there)
> 
>     Not sure what you mean here, Wayland compositors use radeonsi with KMS.
> 
> That is what I mean, since they use KMS directly, anything that radeonsi does wrt using or not using libdrm_amdgpu doesn't impact them.

Still not following. Wayland compositors generally use the same DRM file description for radeonsi (via the EGL GBM platform) and KMS.


> (note that some compositors, like gamescope do the actual dmabuf dance

AFAIK gamescope uses Vulkan, not GL.


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