Re: Some questions
flat view
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2003-03-06 08:35:04
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, James Simmons wrote:
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We should split the monitor programing stuff out from stuff like bpp etc. Now if you think about it we can do things like change the bpp without having to redo the monitor programming. This is the flaw with the old and even the new api.You could have done that from the beginning. Just look at which fields have changed and which haven't.I should of but didn't because I knew driver would take teh path of lest resistance to port there drivers. TO much change would have made the current situtation much much worst.
One other reason why this isn't done is because X may interfere with it. If we
don't do a full register update, but change the parts that need a change only,
we will see less flickering (no PLL reprogramming), but we will suffer if X
doesn't restore the registers to the exact same values they were before.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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