Re: New proposed DRM interface design

Keith Whitwell
2004-09-04T09:02:26Z

Dave Airlie wrote:
>>Let me be clear that I am unwilling to support changes to the DRM that break
>>it's usability on other operating systems on principle.
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> I'm in agreement on that, ...
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>>Maybe it's time to consider a fork of the DRM to allow a major experimentation
>>of the form Jon envisages to proceed without worrying about boring constraints
>>like keeping BSD working, backwards compatibility, etc. And the current DRM
>>architecture, which is pretty much stabilized, can continue to do those boring
>>tasks, and accumulate new drivers, until GNULonghorn is finished...
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> I think it might be an idea myself, but not at this stage, I think a month
> or two from now it might be a better time, if we get an agreeable
> re-design done, then I'd be willing to let a fork proceed from that point,
> so that at least the DRMs are all coming from the same point,

This seems a good plan.

> I think we should hold off on putting 2d stuff into the 3d drivers until
> the DRM is rearchitected into a nice clean stable system that is actually
> liked by kernel developers :-), I'm pushing the second set of macros
> removals to Linus over the next week, along with experimenting on a
> core/library tree...

Thanks for the great work you're putting into this, it's very much
appreciated. Apologies for my pre-morning-coffee grumpiness...

Keith