Re: New proposed DRM interface design

Hamie
2004-09-06T20:58:12Z

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 23:11, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
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>>What is the advantage to continuing a development model where two
>>groups of programmers work independently, with little coordination on
>>two separate code bases trying to simultaneously control the same
>>piece of hardware? This is a continuous source of problems. Why can't
>>we fix the development model to stop this?
>>
>>
>
>I don't see that as much of a problem. The mess arises from some simple
>lacks in the objects in kernel and the methods required to co-ordinate.
>Lots of drivers are written by a lot of people in the kernel and they
>work just fine. The ext3 authors don't spend their lives co-ordinating
>with SCSI driver authors, they just get the API right.
>
>
>

Sorry, but I think that's (Possibly?) a really really bad & misleading
example... Apples & Apples vs Chocolate & Milkshakes... The dual screen
problem with DRM & fb is two drivers accessing (Sometimes) the same
hardware. The ext3 vs SCSI is a filesystem, that sits on-top of a disk
device that may just be SCSI.. Or IDE..

The fs -> SCSI interface is a logical one.

Unless you can have fb sitting on top of DRM of course... (I discount
DRM on-top of fb, because of the D == Direct... No other reason :)...

Does it make sens to have fb ontop of DRM at all? Anyone?

regards
Hamish.