From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
Subject: Re: Re: New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2)
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:22:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063120961.647.3.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030909145202.47914.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com>
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:52, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I meant make it into two separate device drivers, not just split the files.
> Then the user could load base+DRI, base+FB or base+FB+DRI. This would minimize
> the RAM footprint and let the DRI people avoid the problem of mapping the
> framebuffer into kernel space.
Well, what would base do then ? You can only set modes etc... by beeing
an fbdev, and if you are an fbdev you have to map something for fbcon...
What would 'base' be without all of this ? just the PCI probing ?
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-09 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1063039868.1836.31.camel@gaston>
2003-09-09 3:19 ` New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2) Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 7:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 14:52 ` Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 15:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-09-09 15:58 ` Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 16:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-12 17:51 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 17:52 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 17:53 ` James Simmons
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