[Dri-devel] Re: dri fb drivers [was: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Rage128 and Radeon patches]

[Otto S. <so...@gu...>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Otto Solares <so...@gu...> wrote:
> > nice work!
> > 
> > i know you are working with the dri fb drivers, is
> > any progress and what is the current state?
> 
> I am working on embedded Mesa, which is another name
> for standalone OpenGL. Embedded Mesa is based on the
> 3D DRI code but it handles 2D very differently.
> 
> Xfree/DRI scans the PCI bus and initializes hardware
> in it's user space process.  Embedded Mesa instead
> loads the framebuffer drivers and uses them to
> initialize the hardware. This makes Embedded Mesa much
> simpler since it relies on the framebuffer drivers for
> a lot of things such as mode switching and PCI bus
> scanning.

good! IMO this is the future for linux!
i would like to see this work merged with the dri.sf.net
folks and a unified set of drivers for both fb and Xfree.
Is this possible, is this your objective? or embedded
mesa will always be an standalone project...

-solca