From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Deucher Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management. Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:59:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200502220653.01286.adaplas@hotpop.com> <9e473391050221170111610521@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e99705022120462cb9494c@mail.gmail.com> <9e47339105022121234d0f7f73@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Alex Deucher Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: dri-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: dri-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: Jon Smirl , Dave Airlie , James Simmons , Linux Fbdev development list , adaplas@pol.net, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, xorg@lists.freedesktop.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Mailing List On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:23:03 +0000 (GMT), James Simmons wrote: > > > As far as I know none of the significant contributors on either fbdev > > or DRM are being paid to work on the project. > > So I have noticed. There is much to do but no real man power. We are > talking about this merging but at our rate it will take 5 years to happen. > We don't have the man power to do this. So I'm not going to bother > merging. Its all pipe dreams here. > > with that attitude it's never gonna happen. I work almost exclusively on X, but once we get at least one sample driver done (probably radeon, I would be more than happy to devote my limited development resources to the new drm/fb super driver. Right now the kernel FB drivers have no benefit for me so I don't use/develop them. The drm just works and I'm more interested in the crtc/modes/outputs handling than the command processor control stuff. I think a lot of X developers (and porobably IHVs) will get on board when this happens. X is undermanned as well, but we've managed to do a pretty good job of supported a lot of features on a fair number of cards. Alex ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click --