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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:55:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Mestnik <cheako911@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: radeon-pre-2
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Vladimir Dergachev <volodya@mindspring.com>
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       Felix =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20=22K=FChling=22?= <fxkuehl@gmx.de>,
       DRI Devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sad, 2004-09-11 at 16:53, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> >      Lastly, I am not saying you have to put all the code in the same
> file.
> > All I am saying we can mandate that all Radeon HW specific code is
> linked
> > in one module - and this would make things easier for developers.
> 
> And if I want dri but not frame buffer, or vice versa, as the majority
> of current users do 
> 
Hopefully any change to the kernel will allow building FB without DRM. 
This is a trivial seperation of code, that I might add has allready been
done, a good point that we should keep it this way.  Yes, there will be
some new memory mngmt code, posibly optonal as well, that is needed for
multi-headed setups.

> >      I would agree that this can be coded as well - but why bother ?
> Or is 
> > it done and working already ?
> 
> Splitting the modules up is the easy bit. The API is the hard bit so you
> might as well formalize it. It also gives the users the ability to not
> load huge radeon modules.
> 
> 
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