Subject: Re: radeon-pre-2
From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Vladimir Dergachev <volodya@mindspring.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
       Felix =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChling?= <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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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:52:23 -0400
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On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 20:45 -0400, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dnzer wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Not that good - try dragging something while a DVD video is playing.

What are you getting at?


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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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