--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be simple to lift the mode setting and > > hardware identification code out of the fb drivers >.... > > But what would be the advantage over leaving it as a > framebuffer device > or whatever in the first place? > The X philosophy is to ship a complete system for all supported OS's. Moving the code from framebuffer to DRM would remove the requirement for framebuffer to be loaded.
I haven't look at this but if the DRM modules know about setting up the hardware and changing resolutions then there may be no need for framebuffer any more. You could write a generic framebuffer driver that was implemented in terms of the DRM interface. But this wasn't part of the intial idea. ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
