Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267746AbUJCH1F (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 03:27:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267751AbUJCH1F (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 03:27:05 -0400 Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie ([136.201.105.4]:5097 "EHLO holly.csn.ul.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267746AbUJCH05 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 03:26:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:26:54 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie X-X-Sender: airlied@skynet To: Jon Smirl Cc: dri-devel@lists.sf.net, lkml Subject: Re: Merging DRM and fbdev In-Reply-To: <9e47339104100220553c57624a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <9e47339104100220553c57624a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 868 Lines: 22 > In this model a non-drm, fb only driver like cyber2000 could load only > the fb and fbcon modules. I need to do some work rearranging generic > library support functions to allow this. > I think the stated issue with this is, how big the fb driver now becomes because all the DRM stuff is in it... I think a radeon common, with radeonfb/radeondrm is probably going to be needed, Hopefully tomorrow (I've a day off, but the weather is getting nice as well :-), I'll get some time to port some stuff to the vga class stuff, I also want to prepare some patches for the kernel for the previous work you've done ... Dave. - 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/