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DRM IN_FORMATS_ASYNC Coming For The Intel Driver With Linux 6.16


Sent out last week was one final batch of drm-misc-next updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle

IN_FORMATS_ASYNC is to be used initially by just the Intel driver for buffer format and modifier pairs supported by a given plan for asynchronous flips. Waiting in user-space is already this open GNOME Mutter merge request from seven months ago for supporting the tearing modifiers DRM property. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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