On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Abraham Varricatt <abraham.varric...@googlemail.com> wrote: > As of now, I know it's non-existent. But I want to know the > difficulties involved in attempting it (KMS+VESA)? At the moment, the > only chipsets that work with KMS are the intel ones. So, I'm thinking, > why not find out why no-one seems to be interested in doing a VESA > driver? > > Perhaps I'm naive, but if we have such a driver around, it "should" > make it possible for anyone to use KMS on their Linux systems, > correct? A very limited sub-set of features, true, but it will be > better than nothing.
It already exists in the form of the various kernel vesa framebuffer drivers. You can't do acceleration with vesa so there's little need for anything more than framebuffer support. Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
