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 mergedfb. There is still no consensus on > what the final look should be and whether or not we have a flexible > enough model right now. Plus there are some new features in the > pipeline that may require some reworking of the current common code > (absolute offsets and panning domains). It's more of a pain to have to > constantly update the common code.
And it's less painful to do the same changes in all the drivers, possibly introducing inconsistencies? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
