From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Re: New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:22:41 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1063120961.647.3.camel@gaston> References: <20030909145202.47914.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19wkKQ-0006N6-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:22:50 -0700 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.86.99.235]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 19wkKN-0003dL-R9 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:22:48 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20030909145202.47914.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jon Smirl Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Kronos 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. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf