FS#33719 - Patch Xorg Server to support DRI PRIME

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Armin K. (Krejzi) - Monday, 04 February 2013, 23:38 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 05 February 2013, 18:04 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Hello, it would be nice if Archlinux had this patch [1] applied to Xorg Server. It would enable users to "use" hybrid graphics up to some point. Only offloading is possible with the current xorg-server and drivers.

In order to run GL app on secondary gpu, user would need to set DRI_PRIME=1 in his environent, and of course, it would also be necesary to have correct 2D and 3D driver available at runtime.

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-server.git/plain/xserver-autobind-hotplug.patch
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Tuesday, 05 February 2013, 18:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Tuesday, 05 February 2013, 03:41 GMT
The patch description sounds awfully sketchy... The "do not upstream" part sounds like a non-starter.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 05 February 2013, 18:04 GMT
Patching features into Arch packages is against our own rules. This won't go into our package until this is somewhere at least in xorg-server git master.

Until then feel free to maintain it in AUR.

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