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From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: dri-devel@lists.sf.net, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Merging DRM and fbdev
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 23:55:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e47339104100220553c57624a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I've started on a merged fbdev and DRM driver model. 
It doesn't work yet but here's what the modules look like:

Module                  Size  Used by
fbcon                  38080  0
radeon                123598  1
fb                     34344  2 fbcon,radeon
drm                    59044  1 radeon

fbcon and fb modules are almost unmodified from the kernel source.
radeonfb and radeondrm have been merged into a single driver. The
merged driver uses both the drm and fb modules as libraries. It wasn't
possible to build this model until drm supported drm-core.

The radeon and fb modules will get smaller, I'm just beginning to use
the delete key on them. There is still a lot of duplicated code inside
the radeon driver.

In this model a non-drm, fb only driver like cyber2000 could load only
the fb and fbcon modules. I need to do some work rearranging generic
library support functions to allow this.

This is the next phase in the work described in this email:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/2/111

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-03  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-03  3:55 Jon Smirl [this message]
2004-10-03  7:26 ` Merging DRM and fbdev Dave Airlie
2004-10-03 15:33   ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-03 15:50     ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-10-03 16:24       ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-03 16:59         ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-10-03 17:55           ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-03 20:37             ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-10-03 22:42               ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-03 22:16                 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-03 22:19       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-04  1:56         ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-10-03 18:38     ` Mike Mestnik
2004-10-03 18:56       ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-04 19:48         ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-03 16:46   ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-04 17:47     ` Tonnerre
2004-10-04 18:42       ` Jon Smirl

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