Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:37:47 +0100 (IST) | | From | Dave Airlie <> | | Subject | Re: New proposed DRM interface design |
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> > Let me be clear that I am unwilling to support changes to the DRM that break > it's usability on other operating systems on principle.
I'm in agreement on that, ... > > Maybe it's time to consider a fork of the DRM to allow a major experimentation > of the form Jon envisages to proceed without worrying about boring constraints > like keeping BSD working, backwards compatibility, etc. And the current DRM > architecture, which is pretty much stabilized, can continue to do those boring > tasks, and accumulate new drivers, until GNULonghorn is finished...
I think it might be an idea myself, but not at this stage, I think a month or two from now it might be a better time, if we get an agreeable re-design done, then I'd be willing to let a fork proceed from that point, so that at least the DRMs are all coming from the same point,
I think we should hold off on putting 2d stuff into the 3d drivers until the DRM is rearchitected into a nice clean stable system that is actually liked by kernel developers :-), I'm pushing the second set of macros removals to Linus over the next week, along with experimenting on a core/library tree...
Dave.
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
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