Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

Hi

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 09:10:36AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 03:01:08PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > I don't agree with your statement that it should be "a layer over top of DRM".
> > Anything on top of DRM is a device driver.
> > Accel is not a device driver, it is a new type of drm minor / drm driver.
> 
> Yeah, I still think this is not the right way, you are getting almost
> nothing from DRM and making everything more complicated in the
> process.
> 
> > The only alternative imo to that is to abandon the idea of reusing
> > drm, and just make an independant accel core code.
> 
> Not quite really, layer it properly and librarize parts of DRM into
> things accel can re-use so they are not intimately tied to the DRM
> struct device notion.

What do you mean by "struct device notion" ? struct drm_devce ? 

Regards
Stanislaw