It's not just bloat, the network code is used millions of times per
second. Mode
setting happens occaisonally. 

The other problem is memory management. What is going to happen when
fbdev
starts setting the mode for both heads? Who is going to mananage the
VRAM when
the buffers get resized? OpenGL has a very complex memory management
scheme
where things can migrate from VRAM to AGP to system memory.

--- James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:

quoted

quoted

You are mixing things. Mode setting has nothing to do with

rendering. OpenGL

quoted

quoted

is a rendering client. It produces commands sent to the low level

kernel

quoted

quoted

driver and provides a 3D API, but it's not the only one. In this

regard,

quoted

quoted

fbcon is a client too and XFree 2D accel is another one.

But we are rendering to draw fonts, clearing a area of the

screen,copyarea.

quoted

If we are to have a universal solution it needs to OpenGL. Either that

or 

quoted

mode switching stays in the kernel.  

Speaking of bloat in the kernel. When will the crypto and TCP/IP stack

be 

quoted

moved to userspace. The networking code alone is over 17 megs in size.

quoted

Bloat bloat bloat. 



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