On Mit, 2002-11-06 at 18:04, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 16 o'clock on Nov 6, Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= wrote: > > > Yes. The blocking ioctl also returns a timestamp, is that important for > > the signal? > > Might be nice; there's plenty of space. Is it expensive to compute?
Nah, do_gettimeofday(). Currently done on ioctl exit, but would probably better be done in the interrupt handler, assuming that's possible. > > Oh, and BTW, is it okay for the ioctl to trigger a single signal, or > > would it have to generate signals indefinitely? > > Might want a mode that chose between these two options, but if I had to > pick one, I'd ask for a single signal. That's what SYNC wants. Very well, I'll leave it at that then. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
