On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:08:10 +0200
Thomas Hellström <tho...@shipmail.org> wrote:

> Why then exactly are events needed? and why are we required to track
> the progress of the command fifo with events like jbarnes suggests,
> and finally why is this mechanism not needed in the non-pageflipping
> case? If you can give a typical use-case that would probably help a
> lot and avoid confusion.

After you dropped off yesterday we chatted some more and I understand
how this can be avoided now.  If your driver has entry points to track
completion of various events, you should be able to get an accurate
swap buffer count (the main thing I was concerned about here) w/o the
event mechanism.

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