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| author | Rob Clark <robclark@freedesktop.org> | 2016-07-20 13:11:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Rob Clark <robclark@freedesktop.org> | 2016-07-20 19:42:21 -0400 |
| commit | b59ed1881890de75fd13eb7056396bc7848760bc (patch) | |
| tree | cc5b4e818d672cf42abb5b73468951720ce054fd | |
| parent | 6a23bd4b3c52fcd7529062b31c36dd03ae0cdd75 (diff) | |
freedreno: move legacy kgsl related README
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robclark@freedesktop.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | freedreno/kgsl/README (renamed from freedreno/README) | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/freedreno/README b/freedreno/kgsl/README index ae22e013..56874b42 100644 --- a/freedreno/README +++ b/freedreno/kgsl/README @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +This is a historical discription of what is now the kgsl backend +in libdrm freedreno (before the upstream drm/msm driver). Note +that the kgsl backend requires the "kgsl-drm" shim driver, which +usually is in disrepair (QCOM does not build it for android), and +due to random differences between different downstream android +kernel branches it may or may not work. So YMMV. + +Original README: +---------------- + Note that current msm kernel driver is a bit strange. It provides a DRM interface for GEM, which is basically sufficient to have DRI2 working. But it does not provide KMS. And interface to 2d and 3d |