On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
On Llu, 2004-09-13 at 15:52, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:However, if we want the switch from X to framebuffer to be as fast as switching between different text consoles (assuming they have the same resolution) and if we want to be able to run different Xservers on different consoles or Xserver+framebuffer combinations Jon's proposal wins.
It depends how the various components fit together. Clearly for Radeon you want everyone using the DMA command path when DRI is loaded. That doesn't require "one driver".
Alan, do I understand right that you are proposing to have two pieces of code in the framebuffer - one that can program the card in the absence of DRM driver and one that uses CP when it is present ?
best
Vladimir Dergachev
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