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  1. Bug #1440891
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 1440891

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In , Eero-t-tamminen (eero-t-tamminen) wrote :

(In reply to nico-freedesktop.org from comment #8)
> I wonder if anyone of the developers is reading here at all?

Martin's soon back from vacation.

I don't see Jani on the CC, but if this needs new API from kernel, bug about that should be linked here. Is there one?

> The only reason not to use the modesetting driver is the missing backlight
> capability - as it is faster and more reliable than the intel driver (for
> intel hardware!).

You didn't mention in which use-case, on which distro and with which exact HW you've compared modesetting and Intel DDX performance, but in our tests Intel DDX has been somewhat faster on average. As to reliability, there have been issues with DRI3, but those have been fixed in X libraries, Mesa, Intel DDX etc. Mainly you need to use new enough (full) stack.