From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Vladimir Dergachev <volodya@mindspring.com>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
fbdev <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
DRI developer's list <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: waitforVBlank, how does this even work?
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:08:27 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109887707.5679.214.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050303075559.GA7469@sci.fi>
> > Oh, but I was not suggesting that. I just meant that interrupt handling
> > code is self-contained and can easily serve several consumers.
>
> I'm with you here. And the same should IMHO hold for DMA handling. And for
> memory management of course.
DMA handling is the main piece of what the DRM does, memory management
is the missing part.
No, what we really need is just what we said: merging fbdev & DRM and
adding memory management.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-03 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-02 5:50 waitforVBlank, how does this even work? Jon Smirl
2005-03-02 5:55 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-02 7:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 7:30 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Ville Syrjälä
2005-03-02 7:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 14:42 ` Torgeir Veimo
2005-03-02 16:32 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-03-02 17:09 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-02 17:15 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-03-02 17:30 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-02 17:45 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-03-02 17:51 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-02 19:45 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-03-02 18:08 ` Eric Sellers
2005-03-02 19:06 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-02 17:29 ` James Simmons
2005-03-02 22:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 0:04 ` James Simmons
2005-03-02 23:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 1:03 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-03-03 2:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 3:01 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-03-03 7:55 ` Ville Syrjälä
2005-03-03 15:12 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-03-03 22:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 22:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-04 13:18 ` Ville Syrjälä
2005-03-04 22:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-05 6:30 ` Ville Syrjälä
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