From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= Subject: Re: video dir reorg Date: 16 Jan 2003 21:14:10 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1042748050.11409.35.camel@thor> References: <20030116035231.36507.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from netline-be1.netline.ch ([195.141.226.32]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZGP2-00012z-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:14:16 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20030116035231.36507.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Jon Smirl Cc: James Simmons , Sven Luther , fbdev On Don, 2003-01-16 at 04:52, Jon Smirl wrote:=20 >=20 > 1) We have two drivers for the same hardware. They > should be sharing the same include files describing > the hardware. Might be a good idea. > 2) Bug fixing, in some cases the same hardware bug > would need to be fixed in two places. Not sure about this, as I don't see much overlap, but it's plausible I guess. > 3) State saving. When the virtual terminal is changed > is the complete state of the DRM driver saved? What if > one of the other virtual terminals plays with 3D mode? A 3D driver (at least an OpenGL driver) needs to always keep track of hardware state anyway, so after a VT switch it can just upload everything it needs again. > 4) DDC and secondary reset support. I was looking at > adding this to some of the framebuffer drivers. The X > driver can't share this code. The framebuffer device could offer interfaces for these though? > 5) General kernel config. The same peice of hardware > appears in two different places. For very different purposes. Anyway, couldn't the config hierarchy be changed without moving code around, at least with Kconfig? --=20 Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementi= ng SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache=20 Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en