Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:17:54 +0100 (IST) | From | Dave Airlie <> | Subject | Re: New proposed DRM interface design |
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> > Are you suggesting for instance, that RedHat might pick up individual drivers > out of Xorg or better still Mesa, rather than waiting for a full stable > release? That would probably be the biggest help - by comparison kernel > releases are very frequent.
Lets take an example, I'm DA graphics card vendor, I write a DRI driver for my brand new 3d graphics cards (they rock btw :-), people buy loads of them, I want to give them something on my website that they can deploy to use their new card, like a driver for ANotherOS. Now I just want to give them an XFree DDX, DRI driver and a drm module (in source form, that they can use no matter what kernel), now at the moment no matter what kernel they have, the DRM is a completly separate entity - the DRM code deals with it,
If we make a library split that sits inside the kernel, their DRM can stop working if someone busts the interface, hence the idea of having the core reg/dereg in the kernel, and locking it down, then they can ship a complete DRM source tree, and do as they wish as long as they interface properly with the core...
Dave.
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
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