From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267745AbUJVUyp (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:54:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267746AbUJVUyc (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:54:32 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:55237 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267745AbUJVUwJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:52:09 -0400 Message-ID: <417972EC.9020003@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:51:56 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy Miller CC: Alan Cox , Jon Smirl , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? References: <4176E08B.2050706@techsource.com> <4177DF15.8010007@techsource.com> <4177E50F.9030702@sover.net> <200410220238.13071.jk-lkml@sci.fi> <41793C94.3050909@techsource.com> <417955D3.5020206@pobox.com> <41795DEA.8050309@techsource.com> <41796083.9060301@pobox.com> <417965E7.8010408@techsource.com> In-Reply-To: <417965E7.8010408@techsource.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Timothy Miller wrote: > Ok, let me say this: I will not change something I don't have to > change, but I'm not going to be held back (and hold everyone else back) > by some mistake I made in the past. Oh, I do agree w/ this. But if the OS<->hardware interface is kept simple (e.g. simple DMA ring of items to execute, or just xfer to video RAM, and perhaps another response msg ring) then the impact of any design changes you -do- make are mitigated, and the OS driver is kept small and simple as well. Jeff