Re: r128/radeon drivers

Eric Anholt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <1069274557.665.19.camel@leguin>
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:31, Alex Deucher wrote:
> Let me know what you need help with.  I'll do what I can depending on
> my free time.  Unforunately I don't understand the model of kdrive yet
> so I'm still getting up to speed.  I don't see much in terms of crtc
> and mode handling.  how are you setting modes right now?  vesa?
> 
> Alex

Yeah, vesa does the mode stuff so far.  I don't know the kdrive model
enough yet to say how something more complete would get hooked up. 
Keith's been saying he doesn't want complex mode setting code in kdrive
drivers generally, but I would like to see the driver be more complete
somehow.  The idea of a userland mode-setting library which could be
shared by various things that want to be setting video modes (standalone
mesa, xserver, perhaps even XFree86 some day) sounds appealing to me,
but I haven't dealt with that code at all so I don't know how it would
be done / how much shared code there would be.

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