Below is a patch against drm-next branch of 2.6.38-rc8+ kernel that adds
the capability to wait on vblank events for CRTCs that are greater than 1
and thus cannot be represented with primary/secondary flags in the legacy
interface. It was discussed on the dri-devel list in these two threads:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-March/009009.htmlhttp://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-March/009025.html
This patch extends the interface to drm_wait_vblank ioctl so that crtc>1
can be represented. It also adds a new capability to drm_getcap ioctl so
that the user space can check whether the new interface to drm_wait_vblank
is supported (and fall back to the legacy interface if not)
Signed-off-by: Ilija Hadzic <ihadzic@research.bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner at tuebingen.mpg.de>
Acked-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner at tuebingen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).
The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:
1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.
2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
restricted regions of memory.
3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
switch.
4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.
Documentation on the DRI is available from:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/
For specific information about kernel-level support, see:
The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html
A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html
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