--- Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 15:04, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > I'm using the new linux devfs and It seams to me that the DRI can't at this time >use devfs the > way > > it should. If i'm not mistaken the kernel module dosen't realy know how to find >supported > cards, > > it leaves that to the Xserver. If some one was planing on enabling this support >how would > that > > break FreeBSD, what should that coder do to keep FreeBSD happy? > > As long as you only touch linux's drm_* files in the DRM, you're fine as > far as not messing up BSD. > > The BSD DRM already supports FreeBSD's devfs. On BSD, there is a list > of PCI ids in each *_drv.c, which are used in the probe function to see > if each device supplied by the kernel is supported by the DRM. A new > instance of the driver is created for each one (instance of the driver > ~= a drm_device_t). The FreeBSD X Server creates a device node in > /dev/dri/ if there isn't one already. If it's using devfs, make_dev() > in drm_drv.h makes the device node. > > -- > Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ >
I'v looked into this, it seams that the tdfx driver dose something simular to FreeBSD. The code in drm_drv.h could be adapted to create the device nodes, via devfs. The current linux setup just allocates 1 minor number, more is supported by drm_drv.h but only the tdfx makes use of this. I can easily add the call to devfs, but I wonder if I shouldn't fix it up right. I'm planing on making the linux&bsd structures the same, this adds bloat to linux but it's not too bad. Then I could place all the PCI ids in the shared dir, where should thay go (*_drv.h)? I'm planing on having DRISUP_BOTH, DRISUP_BSD, DRISUP_LINUX, DRISUP_NONE defined for the 3rd element. Later something like DRISUPPORTED(bsd,linux,ect...) can be implemented for more OSes. Is there any thing special I should do, if I put data/code in a .h file? Is there any thing else I should be aware of? Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
