Re: New proposed DRM interface design

[Hamie <ha...@tr...>]

Patrick McFarland wrote:

>On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:15:07 +0100, Alan Cox <al...@lx...> wrote:
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>>In some cases yes. The DRM is happy with the idea of the kernel being a
>>DRM client too.
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>Thats actually a pretty cool idea. For us that need to use the vesa
>fbcon driver because
>there is no native driver, it would probably be faster and saner, and
>no more problems with
>dri drivers that don't play nice with fbcon drivers (is that even an
>issue anymore?)
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Yeah it is... Especially with (Dare I say it) closed source drivers such 
as ATI's firegl.

H