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

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> 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.

Jan


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