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authorDanielVetter <DanielVetter@web>2016-11-21 17:14:48 +0000
committerxorg <iki-xorg@freedesktop.org>2016-11-21 17:14:48 +0000
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Contact: [[Daniel Vetter|DanielVetter]], respective driver maintainers
+#### Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers
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+For the first year the atomic modeset helpers didn't support asynchronous/nonblocking commits, and every driver had to hand-roll them. This is fixed now, but there's still a pile of existing drivers that easily could be converted over to the new infrastructure.
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+One issue with the helpers is that they require that drivers handle completion events for atomic commits correctly. But fixing these bugs is good anyway.
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+Contact: [[Daniel Vetter|DanielVetter]], respective driver maintainers
#### Fallout from atomic kms