On Sul, 2004-05-09 at 22:42, Holger Waechtler wrote: > don't know whether the imagination of a register-controlled graphics > peripheral with hundrets of control registers is still valid for a fully > programmable modern GPU.
Its true for older and low end ones though, and they still look that way. X already handles mode save/restore etc for such hw and its not too bad. > Maybe the GPU BIOSes already emulate VESA functions by special GPU > programs in the graphics card's ROM, but this pure guessing. On the long It would make some sense. Cyrix went as far as using SMM emulation to implement the entire illusion of text and vga support some ten years ago. > > I would like to see a single device drver always controlling the GPU and > > VRAM/AGP memory management. > > It's maybe the only way to implement real scheduling. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
