On 6/16/05, Philip Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:49:41AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Another proposal is to write a third stub driver. This driver would > > hook to the ints, suspend, etc. Then DRM and fbdev would register with > > it. This would work but nobody wants to fix 67 fbdev drivers to use > > it. > > If a new architecture gets buy-in from the assorted developers, then > the conversion can be done incrementally (ie one driver at a time) > can't it? There shouldn't be a need for a flag day. Please enlighten > me if there's some reason why converting the radeon fbdev / drm > drivers might depend on whether the rest of fbdev has been converted > or not! > > > There is also kickback from the BSD people. There is a bunch of code > > duplicated between fbdev and DRM. The copy in DRM can be removed and > > fbdev called, but BSD doesn't have fbdev. > > Can that code not be moved into the BSD-specific drm directory as part > of the above refactoring? > > ISTR that you'd done some of this already Jon. Is that code actually > available anywhere?
There are no technical problems with doing any of this, it is just that nobody wants to do the work. We shouldn't change the fbdev architecture without at least having someone on the hook for changing all of the drivers. You don't want to convert ten and not the others, then we effectively have two fbdev systems to maintain. My opinion is to just leave fbdev alone and tap into the existing drivers. Splitting all those drivers on all those platforms just isn't going to happen. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
