On Monday, November 3, 2008 8:26 am Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Friday, October 31, 2008 2:18 pm Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > > On Friday, October 31, 2008 4:01 am Thomas Hellström wrote:
> > >> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > >> > This commit adds the core mode setting routines for use by DRM
> > >> > drivers to manage outputs and displays.  Originally based on the
> > >> > X.Org Randr 1.2 implementation, the code has since been heavily
> > >> > changed by Dave Airlie with contributions by Jesse Barnes, Jakob
> > >> > Bornecrantz and others.
> > >> >
> > >> > This one should probably be split up a bit; I think the TTM stuff in
> > >> > particular could be factored out fairly easily.
> > >>
> > >> Jesse,
> > >> We must split out TTM from anything that goes into DRM next for now,
> > >> as we're about to re-add it in a device dependant
> > >> form with a well defined kernel only API. (This is probably going to
> > >> happen within a couple of weeks).
> > >>
> > >> A minimal user-space API will be added when there are drivers
> > >> supporting it. I guess the first one will be a reworked via driver
> > >> following up with other work.
> > >>
> > >> So for now, I guess the best thing is to strip the TTM parts
> > >> completely and not consider the drivers that rely on it.
> > >>
> > >> I have a patch lying around that strips TTM from modesetting-gem and
> > >> disables the build of radeon, radeon-ms and nouvea, if that would
> > >> help...
> > >
> > > Yeah that would help a bit.  I'm not in a position to push those bits
> > > anyway, so it would be good if my next set of patches didn't have any
> > > TTM or radeon bits...
> >
> > My tree in drm-rawhide shouldn't have many TTM + modeset commits.
> >
> > My plan was to take the core modesetting additions patch
> > 75432e26f0a14a30da437018938d4c04a8faa00e
> > db392921b6e5d051b6651c1f8d47875da789fb44
> >
> > get a tree with just those in it, copy over the latest version of the
> > modesetting files from
> > the head of the branch and make that the base patch.
> >
> > Then get the multi-master bits (can go before or after modesetting in
> > theory).
> >
> > Then drop the Intel driver on top.
>
> Sounds reasonable; I was mainly looking at the radeon stuff to get a feel
> for how it impacts the core.  So do you have a tree with the changes above?
>  If so I can get the intel driver working with it and ignore all the
> radeon/TTM stuff...

Now that I've looked at it a little it seems like the mods are a bit more 
interrelated than I'd hoped.  It might be easier to just drop the TTM bits 
from the core mode setting patch I posted, though those are pretty tangled up 
too.

Jesse

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