Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:14:04 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes |
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:11:18PM -0400, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote: > Of course real support for poulsbo is really important and desirable > since netbooks make such a huge percentage of computer sales these > days. I'm guessing, however, that the number of > embedded/mobile/appliance devices that use or will use the SGX5xx is > much larger than even the plethora of netbooks being pumped out. If > more hardware support can be gained for a little extra burden why not > go for it? I would argue that a unified driver stack would actually > have less maintenance cost since common bugs could be killed. Even > ignoring all the arm devices that will use that graphics core, what > about intel's own use of the SGX 535 elsewhere? Does this "poulsbo" > driver support the intel CE3100 processors? > > > I think i'm really apprehensive about device specific one-offs. Of > course a mainline driver upstream is an important step to prevent that > but without a roadmap it only seems marginally better.
Staging is all aobut "device specific one-offs". the code is then in a common area where everyone can work to fix it up properly.
I don't want to burry this work again in random git trees that no one has any clue how to put together, like has already been done in the past.
thanks,
greg k-h
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