From: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
To: Egbert Eich <eich@pdx.freedesktop.org>
Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
mesa3d-dev <mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>,
fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: RE: [Dri-devel] Memory management of AGP and VRAM
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 14:23:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <409BFE5B.5020308@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16539.63659.810291.931565@xf11.fra.suse.de>
Egbert Eich wrote:
> However chipset probing/display device probing and mode setting isn't
> required to live in kernel space. Portability and system stability
> arguments speak against it. In fact only Apple MAC users seem to
> advocate this idea to be able to an initial video mode on their
> systems.
Allow me to speak up for users of IBM pSeries hardware or Sun SPARC
hardware. Users of those systems face exactly the same issues as Mac
users. I imagine most embedded systems will be in the same boat. Being
forced to use a serial console for early boot messages is so 1980's. ;)
The kernel doesn't need to have support for everything, but I think it's
important to have at least minimal support.
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next parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-07 21:23 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <16539.63659.810291.931565@xf11.fra.suse.de>
2004-05-07 21:23 ` Ian Romanick [this message]
2004-05-09 16:45 ` RE: [Dri-devel] Memory management of AGP and VRAM Jon Smirl
2004-05-09 21:27 ` Holger Waechtler
2004-05-09 21:53 ` Holger Waechtler
2004-05-10 7:59 ` [Mesa3d-dev] " Alan Cox
2004-05-10 16:16 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2004-05-11 16:50 ` Egbert Eich
2004-05-11 18:48 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
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