Messages in this thread | | | From | "D. Hazelton" <> | Subject | Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts | Date | Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:36:39 +0000 |
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On Friday 02 June 2006 04:34, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:15:47 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> Without specifying a design here are a few requirements I would have: > >> > >> 1) The kernel subsystem should be agnostic of the display server. The > >> solution should not be X specific. Any display system should be able > >> to use it, SDL, Y Windows, Fresco, etc... > > > > of course, but that doesn't mean it can't re-use X's code, they are > > the best drivers we have. you forget everytime that the kernel fbdev > > drivers aren't even close, I mean not by a long long way apart from > > maybe radeon. > > matroxfb is clearly better than the X driver. atyfb too IMO.
Hopefully the work me, Dave and Tony are doing is going to make it a level field. If it still doesn't improve things you are still free to use the fbcon system. THat's one part of the design that will not change.
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