Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751691AbWEaEq6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 00:46:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751693AbWEaEq6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 00:46:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.enter.net ([216.193.128.24]:58125 "EHLO smtp.enter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751688AbWEaEq5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 00:46:57 -0400 From: "D. Hazelton" To: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 00:45:56 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: "Dave Airlie" , "Pavel Machek" , "Alan Cox" , "Kyle Moffett" , "Manu Abraham" , "linux cbon" , "Helge Hafting" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@gmail.com References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605310026.01610.dhazelton@enter.net> <9e4733910605302139t4f10766ap86f78e50ee62f102@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910605302139t4f10766ap86f78e50ee62f102@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605310045.56962.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1419 Lines: 31 On Wednesday 31 May 2006 04:39, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/30/06, D. Hazelton wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 04:16, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > On 5/30/06, D. Hazelton wrote: > > > > Like I've said, this has gone onto my list. Now to get back to the > > > > code... I really do want to see about getting this stuff into the > > > > kernel ASAP. > > > > > > You might want to leave the DRM hot potato alone for a while and just > > > work on fbdev. Fbdev is smaller and it is easier to get changes > > > accepted. > > > > Yes, but I have accepted that there is a certain direction and order the > > maintainers want things done in. For this reason I can't just leave DRM > > alone. > > fbdev (Antonino A. Daplas ) and DRM (Dave Airlie > ) have two different maintainers. I have not seen > Tony comment on what he thinks of Dave's plans so I don't know what > his position is how driver merging can be acomplished. True, and neither have I. But lacking Tony's comment I have to trust Dave's statement that the direction he has pointed me in is the one settled on at the last Kernel Summit. DRH - 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/