Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:43:17 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: New proposed DRM interface design |
| |
Jon Smirl wrote:
>They have to be merged. Cards with two heads need the mode set on each >head. fbdev only sets the mode on one head. If I teach fbdev how to >set the mode of the other head fbdev needs to learn about memory >management. The DRM memory management code is complex and is a big >chunk of the driver. > >I would also like to fix things so that we can have two logged in >users, one on each head. This isn't going to work if one them uses >fbdev and keeps swithing the chip to 2D mode while the other user is >in 3D mode. The chip needs to stay in 3D mode with the CP running. > > > Yes! I use the ruby patch and have two users logged in on the two heads of a G550. It works fine - as long as no mode change is attempted. And only one user can use 3D (or even 2D), the other is stuck with a unaccelerated framebuffer.
>We're not going to get OOPS display while running X without merging. >Something I would really like to have since I just had some and was >force to hook up a serial console. > > Also nice to have.
Helge Hafting - 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/
| |