From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030909031908.58173.qmail@web14903.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1063039868.1836.31.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19wZ2A-0005tZ-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:19:14 -0700 Received: from web14903.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.55]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wZ26-0003Li-FA for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:19:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1063039868.1836.31.camel@gaston> 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: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Fbdev development list Cc: Jon Smirl , kronos Just a thought, but what do you think about splitting radeonfb into two peices? Sort of like the way this Rage128 driver is split, http://www.saftware.de/. First piece does PCI IDs, EDID, mode setting, command parsing, maybe hardware cursor. Second does fbcon support such as mapping fb to kernel space, fb accels, etc. My idea is that this model could evolve over time into having a base driver for each card, and then the FB or DRI drivers would plug into the base. This would provide a common place to put locking and state saving code. ===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf