Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261811AbVCOTZu (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:25:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261796AbVCOTZs (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:25:48 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:16316 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261799AbVCOTWv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:22:51 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:22:36 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons X-X-Sender: jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org To: Jon Smirl cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Geert Uytterhoeven , Alan Cox , James Simmons , Michal Januszewski , Linux Kernel Development , "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash In-Reply-To: <9e4733910503151103b8a9c8f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20050308015731.GA26249@spock.one.pl> <1110392212.3116.215.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1110408049.9942.275.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050310145419.GD632@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <9e473391050311101356536667@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910503151103b8a9c8f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 19 > DRM doesn't know a thing about 3D. All it does is DMA, memory > management and queue things up for the GPU to work on. You don't even > have to have a GPU processor you could use the CPU to execute the > commands. > > It's the code up in mesa that knows about 3D and builds the commands > to be sent to DRM. Not all devices are DMA. Personally since it is generic DMA engine then why not move it to the device api so everyone could use it. We already have DMA pools. Actually I have started some work for some generic DMA handling for the device api core but I have other fish to fry first. - 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/