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2014 Feb 03
0
[RFC 00/16] drm/nouveau: initial support for GK20A (Tegra K1)
...au into a render-node only driver without breaking support for existing
> desktop GPUs, and consequently the driver spawns a /dev/dri/cardX node which we
> should try to get rid of.
You cannot get rid of cardX currently. It is implied by DRIVER_MODESET
and that flag should actually be called NOT_A_LEGACY_DRIVER. So you
cannot remove it. I did try to replace DRIVER_MODESET by an inverted
DRIVER_LEGACY flag some time ago, but I thought it's not worth it.
Anyhow, you can easily add a new flag to make
drm_dev_register()/drm_dev_alloc() not create the drm_minor for
DRM_MINOR_LEGACY, which would prevent th...
2014 Feb 01
28
[RFC 00/16] drm/nouveau: initial support for GK20A (Tegra K1)
Hello everyone,
GK20A is the Kepler-based GPU used in the upcoming Tegra K1 chips. The following
patches perform architectural changes to Nouveau that are necessary to support
non-PCI GPUs and add initial support for GK20A. Although the support is still
very basic and more user-space changes will be needed to make the full graphics
stack run on top of it, we were able to successfully open