From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladimir Dergachev Subject: Re: waitforVBlank, how does this even work? Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:15:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <9e473391050301215019081bce@mail.gmail.com> <9e473391050302090926854d95@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Vladimir Dergachev Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9e473391050302090926854d95@mail.gmail.com> Sender: dri-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: dri-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jon Smirl Cc: fbdev , DRI developer's list On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:32:44 -0500 (EST), Vladimir Dergachev > wrote: >> What about isolating interrupt-handling code into a small driver ? >> Something simple to respond to interrupts and call all handlers with a >> certain mask. > > My current plan is that fbdev is the base driver and I will modify the > other drivers to bind to it. It is possible to split about 50K out of > the fbdev driver into another module and make a smaller base driver > but I'm not working on size isssues. Right now all I want to do is get > a combined fbdev/DRM on the radeon with enough features to support > mesa-solo. XGL needs most of both DRM and fbdev features. After that I > have to spend a bunch of time getting it into Linus' tree. I see.. > > I would find it useful if someone came up with a standard kernel space > V4L radeon driver instead of the Gatos stuff. By "standard" you mean "self-contained", right ? While there have been a number of attempts, I don't think a full-featured v4l module will appear before video memory allocation functions are accessible from kernel space. best Vladimir Dergachev > > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsmirl@gmail.com > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click --