On Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:18 am Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:16 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > Add mode setting support to the DRM layer.
> >
> > This is a fairly big chunk of work that allows DRM drivers to provide
> > full output control and configuration capabilities to userspace.  It was
> > motivated by several factors:
> >   - the fb layer's APIs aren't suited for anything but simple
> >     configurations
> >   - coordination between the fb layer, DRM layer, and various userspace
> >     drivers is poor to non-existent (radeonfb excepted)
> >   - user level mode setting drivers makes displaying panic & oops
> >     messages more difficult
> >   - suspend/resume of graphics state is possible in many more
> >     configurations with kernel level support
> >
> > This commit just adds the core DRM part of the mode setting APIs.
> > Driver specific commits using these new structure and APIs will follow.
>
> This patch, and the stuff in your tree, seems to have squashed in a
> default lock patch from krh for dri2 that we don't need any more.

Ah good; those bits should have been part of the master rework anyway.  I 
think I was seeing lockups in the 2D driver w/o these changes, I'll update and 
re-test.

Jesse

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