RE: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-12 Thread Alex Deucher
How about a mergedfb branch if not the trunk? I'm pretty good about keeping things up to date. I'm not yet an expert with CVS, but it won't take long ;) Alex --- Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you would wonder how other developers could enjoy having a look on your updates at the

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 09:15, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 18:12, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:59, Alex Deucher wrote: Factoring it out is not a problem. the question is what to do with it when I pull it out. create an external external libray like

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Deucher
I did some basic work on factoring out the common code and discussed it with Thomas Winischhofer (Sis maintainer and driving force behind mergedfb development). He is of the opinion that it is still too early to create a generic API for mergedfb. There is still no consensus on what the final

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 17:32, Alex Deucher wrote: I did some basic work on factoring out the common code and discussed it with Thomas Winischhofer (Sis maintainer and driving force behind mergedfb development). He is of the opinion that it is still too early to create a generic API for

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 18:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:59, Alex Deucher wrote: Factoring it out is not a problem. the question is what to do with it when I pull it out. create an external external libray like libXMergedFB.so or something like that? I was thinking

RE: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-11 Thread Alexander Stohr
I did some basic work on factoring out the common code and discussed it with Thomas Winischhofer (Sis maintainer and driving force behind mergedfb development). He is of the opinion that it is still too early to create a generic API for mergedfb. There is still no consensus on what the

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Keith Whitwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: looks like the post size limit ate my first attempt to post this. Anyway, I was finally able to access DRI cvs (from dri.freedesktop.org), so I pulled the latest tree and created a radeon mergedfb patch against it. I've

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 15:46, Alex Deucher wrote: It seems like a lot of cards have this type of capability and lots of drivers are doing this somewhat independently of one another. Is there some common code that can be abstracted out? (Looking quickly over the code indicates that a

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-10 Thread William Gallafent
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: --- Keith Whitwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the other question is why didn't Kevin want it in the XFree86 tree? Is there going to be a problem merging this code at some point in the future, or did he just think DRI was a natural home for

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Deucher
Factoring it out is not a problem. the question is what to do with it when I pull it out. create an external external libray like libXMergedFB.so or something like that? what's the preferred method? any existing examples I can look at? Alex --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:59, Alex Deucher wrote: Factoring it out is not a problem. the question is what to do with it when I pull it out. create an external external libray like libXMergedFB.so or something like that? I was thinking of creating a new module like shadowfb. what's the