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

--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Keith Whitwell <redacted>
CC: Jon Smirl <redacted>, Ian Romanick
[off-list ref],
        "DRI developer's list"
[off-list ref]
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:

quoted

Interesting you mention it.  This is what Brian &

I've done in the Mesa 

quoted

embedded branch -- layered the radeon dri driver

on top of fbdev.  I can also 

quoted

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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