[Linaro-mm-sig] Split GEM from the rest of DRM

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 April 2011 19:48:36 Jordan Crouse wrote:
>>
>> During the MM BoF at ELC, it seemed to me that one of the things that scared
>> most ARM vendors away from GEM in the first place is that was perceived to be
>> too closely married to the rest of DRM (especially KMS).
>
> Interestingly, my impression at the BoF was that people didn't like GEM
> and DRM but still wanted to have KMS with their own drivers ;-)

The question is why don't these people like DRM? these people are
willing to pile binary blobs with fucked up HAL layers in them, or GPL
code with wasteful abstractions, and they claim the DRM is too
heavyweight?

It wouldn't take more than a day or two's work to make most of the
legacy DRM core optional, and split it out into separate modules
maybe.

Like the whole legacy buffer management/VM interactions could be split
out and drivers that need it could load it.

Dave.