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SubjectRe: [parisc-linux] Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

>> historical and political reasons, not technical ones. When
>> performance raises its ugly head and you end up having to listen to
>> engineers again you end up with DRI and that:
>>
>> Module Size Used by
>> nvidia 3464380 12
>
>That isn't DRI. DRI is a good deal smaller than the crazy nvidia stuff.
>
>radeon 81089 1
>drm 83433 2 radeon
>
>.. speaks volumes doesn't it 8)

What nvidia version number is that? I remember it being over 5 megs in size. Oh
BTW, that's one GOOD REASON for me to believe having certain parts in userspace
(e.g. X was mentioned) being a good thing - after all, you can't swap kernel
memory. If nvidia continued like that, their kernel module would eventually
exceed the amount of RAM that is apparently installed.

>> X is a beautiful example of how things should not have been done. Its
>> only redeeming quality is that it exists and works, and that's
>> definitively a non-negligible one.
>
>X servers have been implemented a variety of ways involving mixed user
>and kernel space environments, user space only, pure kernel space, and
>even downloading the server onto a graphics coprocessor and talking X
>protocol to it.



Jan Engelhardt
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