Re: [Embedded-pv-devel] [PATCH] drmif: add ABI for para-virtual DRM/KMS

[Oleksandr Andrushchenko <andr2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/25/2016 09:20 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 24.11.16 at 23:14, <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 20:31 +0200, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> > > > Hmm, I think you want a PV Linux DRM/KMS driver, but that doesn't
> > > > mean you want/need a protocol by that name. The interface has
> > > > to describe virtual hardware, and I don't think you'd call a
> > > > graphics
> > > > card "DRM/KMS card"?
> > > Good point, then I would suggest we name it dspl for display (PV
> > > display),
> > > e.g. vdspl, not vdrm.
> > What about DISPL / vDISPL, which is a little easier to pronounce,
> > remember, and map back to 'display' (while dspl sounds to me a lot like
> > the name of one of those obscure ACPI tables, or something like that!
> > :-P).
> >
> > Or, if you want it to be consonant only, how about GFX / vGFX, for
> > 'graphics' ('graphix').
> Yeah, I'd personally like gfx (and hence gfxif.h) better. But again
> I'll leave the final word to the slated maintainer.
I think that GFX may mislead and make people think it is somehow
related to what GPU normally does.
So, I would vote for DISPL/vDISPL
> Jan

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