Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Vertical retrace interrupts?

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:24:33PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Yes, I've seen the dri list archives, and adding support for this in
> > fbdev will result in code dupliation :-(.
> > 
> > However, at least 3 people have mailed me that they are using their
> > somewhat old pc as a set top box with mplayer, DirectFB and i810fb. No
> > X.
> 
> You don't need X to use the DRM, just some privileged client to
> initialize it.

It feels a bit silly to to use drm just for vsync interrupts. Besides
there are a lot of cards that don't have a drm driver but do have an fbdev
driver. IMHO fbdev is the logical place for this stuff.

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