Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Xiong Jiang <linuster@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:47:52 +0100
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On Maw, 2006-05-23 at 10:21 -0700, Xiong Jiang wrote:
> What about initialization, mode and context switching? From the
> discussion I thought that people would like to see X server and
> framebuffer console could coexist in a more coordinated way, which
> could be coordinated DRI in kernel.


There has been some discussion of this in the past and it appears to
make a lot more sense. Really it needs bits of the driver model
reworking.

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