From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: Re: New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030909155822.47988.qmail@web14904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1063120961.647.3.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 19wkst-0003om-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:58:27 -0700 Received: from web14904.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.56]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wksr-0002Be-Eu for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:58:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1063120961.647.3.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 Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Kronos --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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 __________________________________ 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