Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:05:56 -0400 | From | Alex Deucher <> | Subject | Re: radeon-pre-2 |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:45:18 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev <volodya@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] D�nzer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:42 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> > >> I think yourself and Linus's ideas for a locking scheme look good, I also > >> know they won't please Jon too much as he can see where the potential > >> ineffecienes with saving/restore card state on driver swap are, especailly > >> on running fbcon and X on a dual-head card with different users. > > > > Frankly, I don't understand the fuss about that. When you run a 3D > > client on X today, 3D client and X server share the accelerator with > > this scheme, and as imperfect as it is, it seems to do a pretty good job > > in my experience. > > Not that good - try dragging something while a DVD video is playing.
The overlay could be converted to use the CP engine as well. right now it has to switch to MMIO for overlay.
Alex
> > But, I don't understand what the fuss is about either. What's wrong with > putting PLL setting code inside DRM driver and letting it be the client of > fbcon ? And the transition problems could be well solved by leaving the > existing fbcon in for the time being, it is not like the kernel does not > have duplicate drivers. > > best > > Vladimir Dergachev > > > > > > > > > -- > > Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer > > Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 > > Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on > > who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > > Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Dri-devel mailing list > > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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