[Dri-devel] Gamma DRM driver status

[F. <jrf...@tu...>]

The Gamma DRM driver is quite peculiar in several aspects. I'd like to
know if those differences are result of experiments which might be worth
to generalise to other drivers or if instead it's mostly deprecated and
should be made more equal to the others.

For one instance, the Gamma is the only one uses the freelists which the
source of other drivers refer it would be used there too. On the other
hand most of the gamma source duplicates source in the DRM templates.

The current oddity situation is not very convenient since it limits the
kind of changes (either janitorial or architectural) one can do without
breaking the gamma driver.

I for one want to write a general API for DMA buffer pools to be shared
by all drivers, but I need some advice concerning what my position
towards the Gamma source code should be.

José Fonseca