On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 08:54 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: > > while we are moving stuff to the drm, perhaps we should take the time > to add support for multiple buffers and address translation. Then in > the drm we could set up the scan out buffers, etc. however we want and > then expose them to X in a standard fashion. X could assume they are > just one big screen and the drm would deal with the translation to the > appropriate buffers. We could use this to work around HW pitch or > coordinate limits. It would also make support for multiple cards > easier as the userspace drm common layer could dispatch to different > local or network devices (think expanding your desktop across multiple > PCs).
I don't see how this can work without a DRM rendering API. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
