Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

James Simmons
2001-05-15T22:52:08Z

> > 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*

I never liked this either. ioctl calls are slooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.