Re: dri fb drivers [was: Re: Rage128 and Radeon patches]
From: Otto Solares <hidden>
Date: 2003-08-14 20:18:54
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
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--- Otto Solares <solca@guug.org> wrote:quoted
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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01