Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:14:23 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity |
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>> 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.
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