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 18:17:17 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1063124237.1356.1.camel@gaston> References: <20030909155822.47988.qmail@web14904.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 19wlBl-0005yJ-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:17:57 -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 19wlBk-00034p-Mg for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:17:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20030909155822.47988.qmail@web14904.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 17:58, Jon Smirl wrote: > --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:52, Jon Smirl wrote: > > What would 'base' be without all of this ? just the PCI probing ? > > > Base does PCI IDs, EDID, mode setting, command parsing, maybe hardware cursor, > VT switching and state saving. > Second piece does fbcon support such as mapping fb to kernel space, fb accels, > etc. The current fbdev layer, afaik, impose vt switching, mode setting, cursor support etc... to imply fbcon. The mapping of fb is just a 2 liner remaining that isn't worth a separate module. Also, the accel API in 2.6 is meant to be used by more than just fbcon afaik. James, can you comment on this ? Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf