From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Otto Solares Subject: Re: dri fb drivers [was: Re: Rage128 and Radeon patches] Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:18:54 -0600 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030814201854.GD7862@guug.org> References: <20030814182631.GC7862@guug.org> <20030814185551.41277.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030814185551.41277.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com> 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: Jon Smirl Cc: dri-devel , fb-devel On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote: > --- Otto Solares wrote: > > nice work! > > > > i know you are working with the dri fb drivers, is > > any progress and what is the current state? > > I am working on embedded Mesa, which is another name > for standalone OpenGL. Embedded Mesa is based on the > 3D DRI code but it handles 2D very differently. > > Xfree/DRI scans the PCI bus and initializes hardware > in it's user space process. Embedded Mesa instead > loads the framebuffer drivers and uses them to > initialize the hardware. This makes Embedded Mesa much > simpler since it relies on the framebuffer drivers for > a lot of things such as mode switching and PCI bus > scanning. good! IMO this is the future for linux! i would like to see this work merged with the dri.sf.net folks and a unified set of drivers for both fb and Xfree. Is this possible, is this your objective? or embedded mesa will always be an standalone project... -solca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01