Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 May 2006 08:30:29 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts |
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:50:38PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >In the long run, graphics drivers need to know how to program cards from > >scratch rather than depending on 80x25 text mod being there for them. > > True in theory, but that's a task of immense proportions. The Video > BIOS is often the only place where RAM timings and other board-specific > data lives.
We lose at ACPI support unless we can do this, unfortunately - the "run chunks of video BIOS" fallbacks aren't going to work forever. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org - 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/
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