Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264386AbUIMA2T (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:28:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264389AbUIMA2T (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:28:19 -0400 Received: from host-63-144-52-41.concordhotels.com ([63.144.52.41]:10619 "EHLO 080relay.CIS.CIS.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264386AbUIMA2K convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:28:10 -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> <1094912726.21157.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:27:56 -0400 Message-Id: <1095035276.22112.31.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: 974 Lines: 21 On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:42 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > I think yourself and Linus's ideas for a locking scheme look good, I also > know they won't please Jon too much as he can see where the potential > ineffecienes with saving/restore card state on driver swap are, especailly > on running fbcon and X on a dual-head card with different users. Frankly, I don't understand the fuss about that. When you run a 3D client on X today, 3D client and X server share the accelerator with this scheme, and as imperfect as it is, it seems to do a pretty good job in my experience. -- 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/