Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964903AbWE0QYl (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 12:24:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964901AbWE0QYl (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 12:24:41 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:40199 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964870AbWE0QYk (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 12:24:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:39:13 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Dave Airlie Cc: "D. Hazelton" , Alan Cox , Kyle Moffett , Manu Abraham , linux cbon , Helge Hafting , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Message-ID: <20060526173913.GA3357@ucw.cz> References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <1148379089.25255.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200605232338.54177.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605232108u27bc3ae7mbd161778c51afaf5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970605232108u27bc3ae7mbd161778c51afaf5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 32 Hi! > >I am currently looking for some information or help in > >making the Framebuffer > >devices use DRM and setting up a userspace system that > >interfaces with the > >DRM backed framebuffer device to provide full 2D and 3D > >acceleration of all > >supported features and *userspace* emulation of the > >unsupported stuff. > > The first step is to provide some sort of communication > between the > DRM and fb drivers so they know the other one exists, > > previous attempts at this by myself have come apart in > the device > model which just plainly cannot support this without > adding a couple > of dirty hacks, Could fb and drm simply be 'merged' into one driver (at least as far as rest of system is concerned)? That should have no driver model issues...? Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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/