On Feb 13, 2008 4:28 AM, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So I've been thinking about this stuff a lot lately wrt to getting the
> DRM into a state that enables fast-user-switching, GPGPU apps,
> different users on a per head one a single card..
>
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRMRedesign
>
> has a nice picture and some notes.. either comment direct on the webpage,
> or reply here..
>
> A lot of the code heading in this direction just got merged into
> modesetting-101, it should in theory all be backwards compat in the single
> render/master case...

How about a "compat" node for old clients and a "new" render node that
handles both new clients and GPGPU?  Then the backwards compat stuff
could just be a shim layer and everything else could use the same code
instead of dealing with separate render and gpgpu nodes.

Alex

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