From: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
To: fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Redesign of kernel graphics interface
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 00:29:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511212930.GA6854@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040511225711.A7384@armor.freesurf.fr>
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:57:11PM +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:47:42PM -0600, Otto Solares wrote:
> > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:39:50PM +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> > > Do apps manage their swap? No. I think the OS should be responsible for
> > > placing the data (vertices, textures, commands) at the right/best place
> > > for the HW 3D engine and the client should only fill virtual memory.
> >
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD
> >
> > Browsing through kgi.sf.net I found that they have proper multihead
> > and DDC2 support.
>
> True.
What does proper multihead mean here? If it means multihead with separate
framebuffers it doesn't seem much better than fbdev. Proper multihead with
shared framebuffer is a lot harder get right. It would need video memory
management in the kernel.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-06 18:16 Redesign of kernel graphics interface Jon Smirl
2004-05-06 19:46 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-06 23:20 ` James Simmons
2004-05-06 20:57 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-06 23:19 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-06 21:42 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07 0:30 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-06 22:48 ` James Simmons
2004-05-07 0:50 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07 1:20 ` [Dri-devel] " Keith Packard
2004-05-07 1:33 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07 8:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-14 17:20 ` Sven Luther
2004-05-14 17:35 ` Alex Deucher
2004-05-14 19:25 ` Sven Luther
2004-05-14 17:51 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-14 18:08 ` Ville Syrjälä
[not found] ` <20040514184004.16621.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-05-14 19:01 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-15 7:27 ` Holger Waechtler
2004-05-15 8:25 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-17 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-14 19:31 ` Sven Luther
2004-05-10 0:57 ` [Dri-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-10 16:14 ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 16:28 ` [Dri-devel] " Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-10 22:42 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-10 18:29 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-10 19:16 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-05-10 21:05 ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 22:39 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-10 20:47 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-10 23:58 ` James Simmons
2004-05-11 22:57 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-11 21:17 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-11 21:29 ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2004-05-10 19:33 ` [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alan Cox
2004-05-11 8:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-10 23:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-10 23:50 ` James Simmons
2004-05-11 22:13 ` Compiling Rage xlinit.c Richard Smith
2004-05-14 19:41 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-14 21:28 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-14 22:16 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-14 22:48 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-14 23:57 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-15 0:22 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-15 0:42 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-18 22:06 ` James Simmons
2004-05-19 14:36 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-19 22:20 ` James Simmons
2004-05-07 8:30 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-06 23:21 ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 12:07 ` [Dri-devel] " Egbert Eich
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