Re: waitforVBlank, how does this even work?

[Vladimir Dergachev <volodya@mindspring.com>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:03 -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>     What about isolating interrupt-handling code into a small driver ?
>>>> Something simple to respond to interrupts and call all handlers with a
>>>> certain mask.
>>>>
>>>>     This would be useful not only for drm and fbdev but also for km
>>>> (v4l capture module) and stereo-glasses code.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nope, I don't agree.
>>
>> With which part ? ;)
>
> On having a small stub module that does just IRQs ... I think the base
> module should be the fbdev (mode setting etc...)

Oh, but I was not suggesting that. I just meant that interrupt handling 
code is self-contained and can easily serve several consumers.

Which driver claims the pci id I don't care about..

                    best

                      Vladimir Dergachev

>
> Ben.
>
>


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