Re: DRI integration

Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Organization HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 20:42, Jon Smirl wrote:

> >  - Video card initialization, mode switching, etc.
> I am working on that right now for Radeon.  This involves over 10,000 lines of
> code so I am doing a lot of it in a user level library.  I think it is risky to
> put 100KB of relatively infrequently used code into a device driver.
> 

Can someone educate this naive person how it could possibly take
this much code to get the chip set up?  I could believe a lot
of tables, but code????
                          Thanks,
                              - Jim

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Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory
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