Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Chip Salzenberg
2001-05-15T22:02:08Z

According to James Simmons:
> Graphics cards are the same way. Especially high end ones. They have pipes
> as well. For low end cards you can think of them as single pipeline cards
> with one pipe.

It still frosts my shorts that DRM (e.g. /dev/dri/card0) doesn't use
write(). It's a natural way to feed pipelines. But no, it's a raft
of ioctl() calls. *sigh*
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