On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:11:18PM -0400, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote: > Of course real support for poulsbo is really important and desirable > since netbooks make such a huge percentage of computer sales these > days. I'm guessing, however, that the number of > embedded/mobile/appliance devices that use or will use the SGX5xx is > much larger than even the plethora of netbooks being pumped out. If > more hardware support can be gained for a little extra burden why not > go for it? I would argue that a unified driver stack would actually > have less maintenance cost since common bugs could be killed. Even > ignoring all the arm devices that will use that graphics core, what > about intel's own use of the SGX 535 elsewhere? Does this "poulsbo" > driver support the intel CE3100 processors? > > > I think i'm really apprehensive about device specific one-offs. Of > course a mainline driver upstream is an important step to prevent that > but without a roadmap it only seems marginally better.
Staging is all aobut "device specific one-offs". the code is then in a common area where everyone can work to fix it up properly. I don't want to burry this work again in random git trees that no one has any clue how to put together, like has already been done in the past. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel