On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 11:38:39 -0700 (PDT), Mike Mestnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What about moving the DRM and FB specific code into there own per card libs?
radeon - attached to hardware radeon-drm drm - library radeon-fb fb - library fbcon - library
Fell free to convert the merged radeon driver in to a driver plus two libs if you want. I'll accept the patch back. You'll need to wait until I get the merged driver working.
What I don't want is two independent implementations of the hardware initialization code like we currently have. The point of merging is to make sure that a single logical driver programs the hardware is a consistent way.
We spend so much time talking about splitting the radeon driver into pieces. But I don't hear anyone saying I can't ship my product because the radeon driver is 120K and all I can handle is 60K. I'm not going to spend a week's work breaking things up and testing them just because of some theoretical need for a non-existant embedded system. When this hypothetical embedded system shows up the people making the money off from the system can do the work.
Perhaps there might be some feedback from the embedded folks and/or those who decide if these changes are what they want to go in the kernel. If you're going to do something like this, one of the embedded vendors might want to contribute to development. Clearly smaller software parts have advantages, if resources were available to do it split as part of the modification.
That would probably reduce the maintenence effort in the future as well.
-- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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