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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Btw: there's one driver we _know_ we want to support in user space, and > that's the X kind of direct-rendering thing. So if you can show that this > driver infrastructure actually makes sense as a replacement for the DRI > layer, then _that_ would be a hell of a convincing argument. Btw, the other side of this argument is that if a user-space driver infrastructure can _not_ help the DRI kind of situation, then it's largely by definition not interesting. Merging something like that would just mean that we end up with multiple _different_ user-space helper infrastructure shells, which sounds distinctly unpalatable. Linus - 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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