Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261325AbVBVS7a (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:59:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261329AbVBVS7a (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:59:30 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.203]:36693 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261325AbVBVS7Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:59:24 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=XPi9xPg+uI2YHK+FWOzU6wIfL1MMLQs2Qd7G40pD8NSnmS1coJfMZswZcf3UA6tU3OX5vhbEncb+KvM7MLif1rmcaSq0lvm7EvwIDEm9E2w9uSZBEqmxjvOi6kJvb3q2c6Itd0ZEHhgqWoV+JIXicKXEnFMFu/37QY7x6f2VfeE= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:59:22 -0500 From: Alex Deucher Reply-To: Alex Deucher To: James Simmons Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management. Cc: Jon Smirl , Dave Airlie , James Simmons , Linux Fbdev development list , adaplas@pol.net, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, xorg@lists.freedesktop.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200502220653.01286.adaplas@hotpop.com> <9e473391050221170111610521@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e99705022120462cb9494c@mail.gmail.com> <9e47339105022121234d0f7f73@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1400 Lines: 30 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:23:03 +0000 (GMT), James Simmons wrote: > > > As far as I know none of the significant contributors on either fbdev > > or DRM are being paid to work on the project. > > So I have noticed. There is much to do but no real man power. We are > talking about this merging but at our rate it will take 5 years to happen. > We don't have the man power to do this. So I'm not going to bother > merging. Its all pipe dreams here. > > with that attitude it's never gonna happen. I work almost exclusively on X, but once we get at least one sample driver done (probably radeon, I would be more than happy to devote my limited development resources to the new drm/fb super driver. Right now the kernel FB drivers have no benefit for me so I don't use/develop them. The drm just works and I'm more interested in the crtc/modes/outputs handling than the command processor control stuff. I think a lot of X developers (and porobably IHVs) will get on board when this happens. X is undermanned as well, but we've managed to do a pretty good job of supported a lot of features on a fair number of cards. Alex - 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/