From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
Subject: Re: Re: New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:58:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030909155822.47988.qmail@web14904.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063120961.647.3.camel@gaston>
--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:52, Jon Smirl wrote:
> What would 'base' be without all of this ? just the PCI probing ?
>
Base does PCI IDs, EDID, mode setting, command parsing, maybe hardware cursor,
VT switching and state saving.
Second piece does fbcon support such as mapping fb to kernel space, fb accels,
etc.
Base is not meant to be used as a standalone driver. It will always be used in
conjunction with FB or DRI driver.
=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-09 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1063039868.1836.31.camel@gaston>
2003-09-09 3:19 ` New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2) Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 7:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 14:52 ` Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 15:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 15:58 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2003-09-09 16:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-12 17:51 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 17:52 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 17:53 ` James Simmons
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