Re: in-kernel DRM tree move around....

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Thu, 29 May 2008 11:05:08 +0200
"Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 2008 10:46:22 +1000, "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>
> said:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So I've been growing more annoyed with the current layout of the drm
> > tree in the kernel,
> > 
> > a) it lives under char.
> > b) everything in one directory.
> > c) header files in one directory.
> > d) no header files exposed to userspace.
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7df9a948d0f849466e3de259cccb49bc54cbad68
> > 
> > is a proposal to create drivers/gpu/drm, (I may move AGP in there as
> > well later). It also creates per-driver subdirs.
> 
> Looks like a lot more suitable place! I just wonder if drivers/video/drm
> would be even more logical?

I think gpu is better - we are seeing various GPU as CPU accelerator
toolkits appearing and assuming the AMD one ends up open source we will
end up with gpu/something that isn't video.

Remember GPU = Grahi^WGeneric Processing Unit ;)

Alan