From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965198AbVKVVML (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:12:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965214AbVKVVLV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:11:21 -0500 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:10414 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965204AbVKVVLS (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:11:18 -0500 Message-ID: <438389EF.6080405@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:13:19 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20051105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Jon Smirl , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch References: <20051121225303.GA19212@kroah.com> <20051121230136.GB19212@kroah.com> <1132616132.26560.62.camel@gaston> <9e4733910511220854m2c5ffbe0t67a53f6bae89653@mail.gmail.com> <1132690676.20233.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1132690676.20233.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-11-22 at 11:54 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: >> Removal of the 2D engines is a key vulnerability in the strategy of >> only using 2D on Linux. > > I must have missed something, there isn't such a strategy anywhere I > know either in X or in the kernel. EXA in X is designed to make using > the 3D engine to do the 2D rendering much easier. What he means is the process of begging the vendors for specs for just the 2D hardware engine won't work when a seperate 2D engine doesn't exist anymore. -- Brian Gerst