I think the existing(older) system should be used on older cards. If developers start using OpenGL over libX11 then users will have to upgrade or use the slower software Mesa, this dose not change anything where talking about.
--- Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Smirl schrieb: > > > > > fbdev dependence is a very small part of mesa-solo that I would like > to remove. > > fbdev is only used to set the video mode and control the cursor. Both > of these > > of done in user space in the current XFree XAA drivers. > > > > There are three main solutions to mode/cursors problem that no one can > agree on: > > 1) leave fbdev in charge of mode setting and cursor, port it around to > other > > architectures. > > 2) copy of the user space code from XFree86 into a standalone library > - now you > > have to be root to play with the chip. > > 3) Add a couple of IOCTLs to DRM to support modes/cursors. Do as much > of the > > work as possible in user space and just pass final register values to > the > > IOCTLs. > > > > I would like to see #3. I have implemented #3 locally for the radeon > but there > > is no acceptance for adding it to main DRM drivers. > > > > ===== > > Does this mean that hardware cursor and mode switching support is the > only non-3D stuff modern graphics hardware has to support to be useful > on GNU/Linux systems? > There would be no 2d drivers, only some basic mode switching and cursor > support and OpenGL? > > Philipp Klaus Krause > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. > From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the > one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and > evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
