[Linux-fbdev-devel] Fwd: Re: [Dri-devel] future of DRI?

[Jon S. <jon...@ya...>]

--- Linus Torvalds <tor...@tr...> wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <tor...@tr...>
> To: Keith Whitwell <ke...@tu...>
> CC: Jon Smirl <jon...@ya...>, Ian Romanick
> <id...@us...>,
>         "DRI developer's list"
> <dri...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] future of DRI?
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:15:06 -0800 (PST)
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > 
> > Interesting you mention it.  This is what Brian &
> I've done in the Mesa 
> > embedded branch -- layered the radeon dri driver
> on top of fbdev.  I can also 
> > build regular DRI drivers from a minimal tree &
> sane set of makefiles.
> 
> Personally, I'd rather see DRI _underneath_ fbdev
> rather than on top of. 
> Since fbdev would require at least to know of (and
> obey) the DRI locking 
> code - and would likely want to use all the same DRI
> command execution for 
> things like blits etc (this is on the assumption
> that 2d and 3d will 
> eventually use the same engine, which is probably a
> safe assumption).
> 
> I _assume_ that what you really mean is that you use
> fbdev really only to
> set up the screen modes and do things like
> initialize the graphics
> buffers.
> 
> 		Linus
> 
> 
> 
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