On Nov 28, 2007 6:15 AM, Stephane Marchesin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/28/07, Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:52 +0100, Stephane Marchesin wrote: > > > > > The third case obviously will never require any kind of state > > > re-emitting. > > > > Unless you run out of hardware contexts. > > Well, in that case we (plan to) bang the state registers from the kernel > directly and do a manual state swap. > So we still don't need state re-emitting.
Well, banging the state registers from the kernel sounds like state emission to me - you mean userspace state emission wont be needed?. How does the kernel know how to restore the state? Can you swap a previously set hardware state out to vram/hostmem? I guess you can always just read out the registers you need... Kristian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
