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From: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu/hwcontext_vaapi: Skip 'vgem' driver
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:25:11 +0100
Message-ID: <166972111144.4503.13564943385890113995@lain.khirnov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221123215444.1754721-1-briannorris@chromium.org>

Quoting Brian Norris (2022-11-23 22:54:44)
> There can be more than one available render node, and it's not
> guaranteed the first node we come across is the correct one. In
> particular, 'vgem' devices are common, and are
> never VAAPI-enabled and thus not valid here.
> 
> We have a 'kernel_driver' arg already for specifying a single driver we
> *do* want, but it doesn't support a negation, nor a list. It's easier
> just to automatically skip 'vgem' anyway, to avoid foisting this burden
> on users.
> 
> This has precedent in libva-utils already:
> 
>   bfb6b98ed62a exclude vgem node and invalid drm node in vainfo
>   https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/commit/bfb6b98ed62ac14a840ba62639ab902a23912258
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> ---

I'm not the maintainer for this, but I wonder if it wouldn't be cleaner
to instead add something like a 'kernel_driver_blacklist' option that
would contain a comma-separated list of ignored drivers, and default to
'vgem' (with maybe more added later).

-- 
Anton Khirnov
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-29 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-23 21:54 Brian Norris
2022-11-29 11:25 ` Anton Khirnov [this message]
2022-11-29 19:03   ` Brian Norris
2022-12-05  4:37 ` Xiang, Haihao
2022-12-05 22:27   ` Brian Norris

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