On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:55 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:49:11AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > In the meantime, can you tell me more about your arbitration scheme ? > > There is a lock associated with the graphics card. The lock is always > taken before programming the hardware. Other things wanting access to the > hardware wait until the lock is released.
Ok, so it would be easy to have directFB use an external arbiter without breaking existing clients ? It will need at least to use the vga arbiter that I'm about to finish, that should allow at least to have X on one card and directFB on another without conflict. Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
