Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management.

2005-02-22 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:23:03 + (GMT), James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I know none of the significant contributors on either fbdev > > or DRM are being paid to work on the project. > > So I have noticed. There is much to do but no real man power. We are > talking about

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management.

2005-02-22 Thread James Simmons
> As far as I know none of the significant contributors on either fbdev > or DRM are being paid to work on the project. So I have noticed. There is much to do but no real man power. We are talking about this merging but at our rate it will take 5 years to happen. We don't have the man power to

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management.

2005-02-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:13:07 + (GMT), James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 4. Which comes to the next point. The code is not modular enough. Take > > >drm_bufs.c. Everything is a ioctl function. This has a few > > > disadvantages. > > >One is the fbdev layer couldn't just lin

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management.

2005-02-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:03 +1100, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. Lots of work that would take lots of time. To my knowledge all fbdev > >developers work in there spare free time. No one does this for a > >living. > > So do most of the drm developers, I know I do and Jo

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management.

2005-02-21 Thread James Simmons
> > 1. Lots of work that would take lots of time. To my knowledge all fbdev > >developers work in there spare free time. No one does this for a > >living. > > So do most of the drm developers, I know I do and Jon Smirl does, and > Eric Anholt does and I think us three have been the larges

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management.

2005-02-21 Thread Dave Airlie
> > 1. Lots of work that would take lots of time. To my knowledge all fbdev >developers work in there spare free time. No one does this for a >living. So do most of the drm developers, I know I do and Jon Smirl does, and Eric Anholt does and I think us three have been the largest contribu

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Resource management.

2005-02-21 Thread James Simmons
> > Do you see any other solution to this then? > > You could build this inside of the DRM framework which already > supports DMA and memory management. DRM doesn't really know anything > about 3D, it just knows how to send commands to the graphics hardware. > It's the mesa layer in user space th