From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: How DRM differs from KGI? Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:56:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20110831055609.GE8538@alien.local> References: <331933.91804.qm@web95401.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E770D9E75D for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, PRASANNA KUMAR List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Hi, On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:32:24AM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote: > Difference is that KGI try to do more than modesetting (some kind of > acceleration too) That's not different from DRM really... Once DRM grew KMS, it did in fact become *very* similar to KGI. (The actual graphics driver part of KGI that is... Obviously not the other mostly unrelated stuff they tried to push along the way.) > and i don't think they ever try to work with the community > (drm/dri/mesa) which is where pretty much all GPU driver dev are. Well, GGI/KGI actually predates DRI/DRM by several years. The fact that DRI ever came up in the first place is pretty much an attestation of GGI's failure to get support from the relevant parties. You are probably right though about failure to cooperate with MESA developers -- along with the failure to cooperate with XFree86 and Linux developers... -antrik-