Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Keith Whitwell <keith@tungstengraphics.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
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       Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
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On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 17:05, Jon Smirl wrote:
> They have to be merged. Cards with two heads need the mode set on each
> head. fbdev only sets the mode on one head. If I teach fbdev how to
> set the mode of the other head fbdev needs to learn about memory
> management.  The DRM memory management code is complex and is a big
> chunk of the driver.

I see the entire time at OLS trying to sort this out was a complete
waste.

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