Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:28:19 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] DirectX on Linux |
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:51:13PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >Hi! > >> > The driver creates the /dev/dxg device, which can be opened by user mode >> > application and handles their ioctls. The IOCTL interface to the driver >> > is defined in dxgkmthk.h (Dxgkrnl Graphics Port Driver ioctl >> > definitions). The interface matches the D3DKMT interface on Windows. >> > Ioctls are implemented in ioctl.c. >> >> Echoing what others said, you're not making a DRM driver. The driver should live outside >> of the DRM code. >> > >Actually, this sounds to me like "this should not be merged into linux kernel". I mean, >we already have DRM API on Linux. We don't want another one, do we?
This driver doesn't have any display functionality.
>And at the very least... this misses API docs for /dev/dxg. Code can't really >be reviewed without that.
The docs live here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/d3dkmthk/
-- Thanks, Sasha
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