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From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
To: Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Redesign of kernel graphics interface
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:57:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511225711.A7384@armor.freesurf.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040510204742.GA12863@guug.org>; from solca@guug.org on Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:47:42PM -0600

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:47:42PM -0600, Otto Solares wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:39:50PM +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> > Do apps manage their swap? No. I think the OS should be responsible for
> > placing the data (vertices, textures, commands) at the right/best place
> > for the HW 3D engine and the client should only fill virtual memory.
> 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD
> 
> Browsing through kgi.sf.net I found that they have proper multihead
> and DDC2 support.

True.

> They just lack DRI integrated into KGI and it will
> rock from my user perspective.

It's not DRI but GGI+KGI accel resource management. Mesa can work
with GGI backend (the code has to be refreshed though).

> Is true that the BSDs are adopting KGI as their unified kernel
> graphics layer?

It's a project, yes.

-- 
Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org
http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-06 18:16 Redesign of kernel graphics interface Jon Smirl
2004-05-06 19:46 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-06 23:20   ` James Simmons
2004-05-06 20:57 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-06 23:19 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-06 21:42   ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07  0:30     ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-06 22:48       ` James Simmons
2004-05-07  0:50         ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07  1:20           ` [Dri-devel] " Keith Packard
2004-05-07  1:33             ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07  8:31           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-14 17:20           ` Sven Luther
2004-05-14 17:35             ` Alex Deucher
2004-05-14 19:25               ` Sven Luther
2004-05-14 17:51             ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-14 18:08               ` Ville Syrjälä
     [not found]                 ` <20040514184004.16621.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-05-14 19:01                   ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-15  7:27                     ` Holger Waechtler
2004-05-15  8:25                       ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-17 17:40                   ` Alan Cox
2004-05-14 19:31               ` Sven Luther
2004-05-10  0:57         ` [Dri-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-10 16:14           ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 16:28             ` [Dri-devel] " Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-10 22:42               ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-10 18:29             ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-10 19:16               ` Mike Mestnik
2004-05-10 21:05               ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 22:39               ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-10 20:47                 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-10 23:58                   ` James Simmons
2004-05-11 22:57                   ` Nicolas Souchu [this message]
2004-05-11 21:17                     ` Otto Solares
2004-05-11 21:29                     ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-10 19:33             ` [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alan Cox
2004-05-11  8:33               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-10 23:40             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-10 23:50               ` James Simmons
2004-05-11 22:13                 ` Compiling Rage xlinit.c Richard Smith
2004-05-14 19:41                   ` Richard Smith
2004-05-14 21:28                     ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-14 22:16                       ` Richard Smith
2004-05-14 22:48                         ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-14 23:57                           ` Richard Smith
2004-05-15  0:22                             ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-15  0:42                             ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-18 22:06                             ` James Simmons
2004-05-19 14:36                               ` Richard Smith
2004-05-19 22:20                                 ` James Simmons
2004-05-07  8:30       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-06 23:21   ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 12:07 ` [Dri-devel] " Egbert Eich

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