Re: libdrm_amdgpu being forked and merged into Mesa

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 6:57 PM Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>

And they will after this change, i.e. this is not a problem wrt this
change.

>
>
> > (note that some compositors, like gamescope do the actual dmabuf dance
>
> AFAIK gamescope uses Vulkan, not GL.
>
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