-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keith Packard wrote: | On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 17:27 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: | |> Apps are using and will increasingly use the glMapBuffer path. With the |> information currently at hand, doing the alloc/copy/upload/free in the |> driver might be the win. Great. It's way too soon to box ourselves |> into that route. If we're going to be stuck with an unchangeable |> interface for another 5 years, it had better be flexible enough to |> support more than one way to do things under the sheets. | | No-one is forcing anyone to do anything -- certainly gem supports mmap | as well as pwrite, so you can do whichever you prefer. The reason pwrite | was added was to support the SubData path directly in the kernel, | instead of providing only a map/copy/unmap path. That way the kernel | gets to choose how it implements both paths, and so does the | application.
I know...that's one of the things I liked about it. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIMkPSX1gOwKyEAw8RAsXwAKCXMRPm/c8SYBXRM3q2PQnOKU7DJgCfRGHJ jBqKf0km6HHDJulmCGFfqec= =j+l5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
