Re: Native mode handling

--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think we should start thinking about moving away from fbdev in
> the long run. Either that, or do some significant fixup of the
> fbdev, which is, imho, looking more and more like a lost cause.
> 

I am with Ben on this one. fbdev will probably continue to exisit but future
X/DRM implementations may not coexist with it. I am strongly in favor of a model
with a single device driver per graphics card and no driver driver timesharing
between fbdev and DRM. There is no reason a new console system can't be built
around DRM to replace the features of the fbdev one.

Ben also went down the path of trying to add full mode support to the radeon
fbdev driver. He may want to comment on that. I'm doing the mode code in user
space and the shared object for it is going to be at least a 100K in size. In
Linux 2.7 user space is going to be enabled very early in the boot process, at
that point you could switch from the BIOS console to a DRM based one with mode
support.

Don't think of DRM as being 3D only. I would like to see DRM compatible drivers
built for 2D cards too, they'll just return not-implemented for 3D features.

=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl-/[email protected]

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