Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm: Add GEM ("graphics execution manager") to i915 driver. | From | Keith Packard <> | Date | Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:11:50 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 08:44 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> "the 2d driver" ... "the 3d driver". > Just curious: Is there only one of each of these?
We only need one X.org 2D and one Mesa 3D driver for each card, but DRI supports as many rendering APIs as you like, including XvMC which offers accelerated video decode on top of DRI as well.
So, the answer is that yes, at this point, we have only the two Intel integrated graphics drivers using GEM, but also no, the interface can support as many drivers as you want.
I hope that GEM will encourage more graphics API research as it allows multiple user-space APIs to talk to the same underlying hardware resources.
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