Re: Native mode handling

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 05:13, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> 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. 

But what you propose still consists of several drivers. It doesn't
really matter whether they live in kernel or user land, there needs to
be arbitration either way.

That being said, everybody seems to agree that framebuffer devices are
doomed, don't expect me to defend them.

> There is no reason a new console system can't be built around DRM to
> replace the features of the fbdev one.

I was asking about framebuffer devices, not fbcon.


> Don't think of DRM as being 3D only. 

I don't... I've written 2D code using the DRM. :)

> I would like to see DRM compatible drivers built for 2D cards too, 
> they'll just return not-implemented for 3D features.

The DRM doesn't really provide a driver-independent 3D interface anyway.


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