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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>,
	Egbert Eich <eich@pdx.freedesktop.org>,
	DRI Devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	mesa3d-dev <mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Mesa3d-dev] RE: [Dri-devel] Memory management of AGP and VRAM
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:59:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084175946.24578.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040509164514.17651.qmail@web14922.mail.yahoo.com>

On Sul, 2004-05-09 at 17:45, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Also, these is no rule saying a device driver can't have several tables of _init
> register values that can be used to set the mode on a primary monitor at boot. I
> would just like to see all of the code that does DDC decoding and modeline
> computations moved to user space.

But there should also be no rule that says it cannot be in kernel space.
Lets take the Voodoo2 again, the mode computation is *tiny*.
Or many embedded devices where the modes are very simple to set up.

The API at user space for the driver modules has to leave the question
of *who* does what private to the driver.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-10  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <A98078D7EF5BEA4D8D8FD797FFBBC75F0742A3A0@fmsmsx402.fm.intel.com>
     [not found] ` <16539.63659.810291.931565@xf11.fra.suse.de>
2004-05-07 21:23   ` RE: [Dri-devel] Memory management of AGP and VRAM Ian Romanick
2004-05-09 16:45     ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-09 21:27       ` Holger Waechtler
2004-05-09 21:53         ` Holger Waechtler
2004-05-10  7:59       ` Alan Cox [this message]
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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