Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932341AbWEXX4J (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 19:56:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932339AbWEXX4J (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 19:56:09 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.202]:33231 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932336AbWEXX4H convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 19:56:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s5Z49WcVcNJK6ge5A9jeNvqAEAzUC2Cd2OBuWCsjsQAqlYhBc0LaFOFst8mL+cLLf0SvE4jM22qKnegVMa6FlSWXVrVtIaaoeiW3dlGCWi7XVdTxf9P1MqcOeWNLuSvPQcW3hqtveHVA37YeVzBWeZcdSO9HiDkP3F3eeUhGOIE= Message-ID: <9e4733910605241656r6a88b5d3hda8c8a4e72edc193@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 19:56:05 -0400 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Dave Airlie" Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Cc: "D. Hazelton" , "Alan Cox" , "Kyle Moffett" , "Manu Abraham" , "linux cbon" , "Helge Hafting" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970605241618x7eaeb010h60817b5ca944acd9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605232338.54177.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605232108u27bc3ae7mbd161778c51afaf5@mail.gmail.com> <200605240017.45039.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605232214l3349df0dka162f794f8eddf95@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910605240827w309c4dc7of42ea2def10960c9@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9970605241618x7eaeb010h60817b5ca944acd9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1218 Lines: 26 On 5/24/06, Dave Airlie wrote: > It has absolutely nothing to do with the GPL vs BSD licensing on the > code it has to do with the belief that fbdev isn't a complete enough > model to do what needs to be done and merging it into the DRM is just > going to make things worse rather than better, I've no idea where you > ever came up with it being a licensing thing at all... the FreeBSD ppl > have on interest in taking fbdev code anyways... I got giant earfuls of the BSD issue from EricA. But, Dave, you are more reasonable than some of the other X developers so I'm not putting blame on you. I did notice that you didn't deny the part about zero forward progress in the kernel. I do stand by my opinion that building a driver bus so that three independent drivers (fbdev, DRM, XAA/EXA) can simultaneously multitask on a single piece of hardware is not a good design. It is a political solution, not a technical one. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - 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/