Re: radeon-pre-2

Michel Dänzer
2004-09-13T00:52:50Z

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 20:45 -0400, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dnzer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:42 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>
> >> I think yourself and Linus's ideas for a locking scheme look good, I also
> >> know they won't please Jon too much as he can see where the potential
> >> ineffecienes with saving/restore card state on driver swap are, especailly
> >> on running fbcon and X on a dual-head card with different users.
> >
> > Frankly, I don't understand the fuss about that. When you run a 3D
> > client on X today, 3D client and X server share the accelerator with
> > this scheme, and as imperfect as it is, it seems to do a pretty good job
> > in my experience.
>
> Not that good - try dragging something while a DVD video is playing.

What are you getting at?

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