From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Fwd: Re: [Dri-devel] future of DRI? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:42:36 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030301184236.77268.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from web14914.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.241]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18pBwT-0007EO-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 10:42:37 -0800 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: fbdev --- Linus Torvalds wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds > To: Keith Whitwell > CC: Jon Smirl , Ian Romanick > , > "DRI developer's list" > > Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] future of DRI? > Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:15:06 -0800 (PST) > > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > > Interesting you mention it. This is what Brian & > I've done in the Mesa > > embedded branch -- layered the radeon dri driver > on top of fbdev. I can also > > build regular DRI drivers from a minimal tree & > sane set of makefiles. > > Personally, I'd rather see DRI _underneath_ fbdev > rather than on top of. > Since fbdev would require at least to know of (and > obey) the DRI locking > code - and would likely want to use all the same DRI > command execution for > things like blits etc (this is on the assumption > that 2d and 3d will > eventually use the same engine, which is probably a > safe assumption). > > I _assume_ that what you really mean is that you use > fbdev really only to > set up the screen modes and do things like > initialize the graphics > buffers. > > Linus > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel ===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf