From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ville_Syrj=E4l=E4?= Subject: Re: Vertical retrace interrupts? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:55:17 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030131135517.A9655@sci.fi> References: <1043893384.1052.127.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1043927116.7576.40.camel@thor> <1043968889.1002.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1044012272.6540.14.camel@thor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from velli.mail.jippii.net ([195.197.172.114]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18eZkM-0002Xl-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:54:14 -0800 Received: from simpukka.saunalahti.fi (simpukka.saunalahti.fi [195.74.0.20]) by velli.mail.jippii.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C2F1C62A5 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:54:09 +0200 (EET) Received: (from syrjala@localhost) by simpukka.saunalahti.fi (8.8.5/8.8.3) id NAA10131 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:55:17 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <1044012272.6540.14.camel@thor>; from michel@daenzer.net on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:24:33PM +0100 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="iso-8859-1" To: Linux Fbdev development list On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:24:33PM +0100, Michel D=E4nzer wrote: > > Yes, I've seen the dri list archives, and adding support for this in > > fbdev will result in code dupliation :-(. > >=20 > > However, at least 3 people have mailed me that they are using their > > somewhat old pc as a set top box with mplayer, DirectFB and i810fb. No > > X. >=20 > You don't need X to use the DRM, just some privileged client to > initialize it. It feels a bit silly to to use drm just for vsync interrupts. Besides there are a lot of cards that don't have a drm driver but do have an fbdev driver. IMHO fbdev is the logical place for this stuff. --=20 Ville Syrj=E4l=E4 syrjala@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld =3D Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com