> > properly with the core... > > or they just ship their own matching core .c file as well.... > > Lets face it, for the core there are 2 things that are entirely at > conflicts: small interface and core being useful. > I rather go for the useful side myself.
It's still useful, it just is built into the drivers as a library rather than the kernel, and the actual "core" is just a major number sharing scheme, again the only advantage of building the library functions into the kernel or as a separate module are a small memory saving on a rare use case, hardly an astounding reason, New functions added to the library can be made available to new drivers, and vendors can ship their own set of library sources and not use the kernels ones.. Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel