On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 14:14, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Michel DÃnzer wrote:
> 
> >>The userspace dri driver is the only user of these kernel drivers.
> > 
> > 
> > No, there's also the DDX drivers, XvMC, ... and there could be more in
> > the future.
> >
> 
> So you tell me that there are at least three (DRI/DDX/XvMC) libraries
> which do basically the same thing?
> If, and that's what someone wrote here, the DRM kernel drivers are
> 'nothing more than a conduit to shove bits into the chip', then these
> three userspace libraries duplicate (more or less) the same code.

No, they use the DRM for different functionality.


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