Re: Re: how to write snappy benchmark?

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 02:17, Allen Akin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:20:08PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> | On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> | > 
> | > How different is the NVIDIA proprietary interface from the DRI?
> | 
> |    Very.  Partly because the hardware is very different.  Partly
> | because it has a different heritige.
> 
> And both differ from SGI's method, and (if I understand it correctly)
> Sun's.  At least in the beginning, the DRI was closest to an approach
> used at HP.
> 
> There are a lot of ways to crack this particular nut.  In addition to
> hardware and heritage, the amount of interference the kernel people are
> willing to endure also affects the choice.

Can you provide some details? The SGI way is to virtualize all gfx
hardware, while DRI is a hardware acces arbitrator?

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Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]>