Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 15:51:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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> > Graphics cards are the same way. Especially high end ones. They have pipes > > as well. For low end cards you can think of them as single pipeline cards > > with one pipe. > > It still frosts my shorts that DRM (e.g. /dev/dri/card0) doesn't use > write(). It's a natural way to feed pipelines. But no, it's a raft > of ioctl() calls. *sigh*
I never liked this either. ioctl calls are slooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
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