Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Sep 2004 10:02:20 +0100 | From | Keith Whitwell <> | Subject | Re: New proposed DRM interface design |
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Dave Airlie wrote: >>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,
This seems a good plan.
> 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...
Thanks for the great work you're putting into this, it's very much appreciated. Apologies for my pre-morning-coffee grumpiness...
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