Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:27:32 +0100 | From | Keith Whitwell <> | Subject | Re: DRM code reorganization |
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>> ian: what about splitting the current memory management code into a >> module that can be swapped for your new version? > > > AFAIK, the only drivers that have any sort of in-kernel memory manager > are the radeon (only used by the R200 driver) and i830. That memory > manager only exists to support an NV_vertex_array_range-like extension > that some Tungsten customers needed. I don't think there would be any > benefit to making that swappable. > > Once the new memory manager is in, 80% (or more) of the code will be in > user-mode anyway. The code that will be in the kernel should be generic > enough to be completely sharable (i.e., in a generic DRM library).
Yes, the future is Ian's manager. The existing ones are built to be discarded when something better comes along.
Keith
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