From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Current discussion about the future of free software graphics Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:14:23 +0100 Sender: dri-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1084371262.26224.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Reply-To: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: 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" To: DRI Devel Cc: sottek , eich@pdx.freedesktop.org, agd5f@yahoo.com, michel@daenzer.net, keithp@keithp.com, jonsmirl@yahoo.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Maw, 2004-05-11 at 20:55, James Simmons wrote: > Ug. I see I'm fighting a losing battle but it doesn't matter. I couldn't > never win this fight. There is MONEY involved here. This is a sure way > to make sure Tungstengraphics has a income coming in. They want a monoply > on the linux graphics arena then fine they can have it. Current DRI is certainly a PITA unless you know it well but the kernel side is quite trivial underneath the macrotrastrophe and preprocessor abuse. Its mappable buffers, queue, interrupt handler, X<->kernel auth mapping, and thats it Also I'd note several folks are doing DRI nowday without Tungsten - VIA did the Savage and VIA drivers, sis6326 is a WIP but its also not tungsten stuff. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 --