Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268069AbUIKDaW (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:30:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268072AbUIKDaW (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:30:22 -0400 Received: from host-63-144-52-41.concordhotels.com ([63.144.52.41]:3900 "EHLO 080relay.CIS.CIS.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268069AbUIKDaU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:30:20 -0400 Subject: Re: radeon-pre-2 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Dave Airlie Cc: Alan Cox , Jon Smirl , Felix =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChling?= , DRI Devel , lkml , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: References: <9e47339104090919015b5b5a4d@mail.gmail.com> <20040910153135.4310c13a.felix@trabant> <9e47339104091008115b821912@mail.gmail.com> <1094829278.17801.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <9e4733910409100937126dc0e7@mail.gmail.com> <1094832031.17883.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <9e47339104091010221f03ec06@mail.gmail.com> <1094835846.17932.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <9e47339104091011402e8341d0@mail.gmail.com> <1094853588.18235.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:30:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1094873412.4838.49.camel@admin.tel.thor.asgaard.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 20 On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 01:50 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Alan, I agree with how you want to proceed with this, and keep things > stable, but anything short of a single card-specific driver looking after > the registers and DMA queueing and locking is going to have deficiencies > [...] You're probably right, but it still doesn't follow that this driver must include all the fbdev and DRM code as well. Both fbdev and the DRM could use that driver, e.g., just like ide_cd and ide_disk use the IDE driver. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/