--- Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I understood, Mesa-solo required the linux framebuffer, which > I don't have. I seriously don't want to be the one to start work on the > mode-setting library. As far as pbuffers, once we've got the glue > necessray I'll fix up the SiS driver for it, which should be quick. But > all of this will take time to be done, and they aren't areas I've > already worked in. Render, now, I should be able to fix this patch up > in another day or maybe two, and make myself and normal users happy in > the short term.
I added mode setting support to DRM while you were gone. That caused a big stink and it is not in there now. There is a meeting scheduled at OLS to discuss the issues between DRM and fbdev. The complicated part of mode setting is what do you do when there are multiple heads involved? If multiple head mode setting stays in fbdev then fbdev needs to do memory management but DRM does complicated memory management that is not in fbdev. Another large point of contention is whether mode setting should be done completely in the kernel including DDC support. The alternate solution is to read DDC from user space and compute the mode info there. Then just pass the final register values into the driver. I also added a hot plug event to DRM to trigger a user space reset program than ran in vm86 mode, but that's been pulled too. Read the dri-devel and fbdev mail archives, there are hundreds of messages on this subject. Other topics that were discussed included printk with DRM and rework of the kernel VT subsystem. If I could get reset, mode setting, and cursor support into DRM mesa-solo wouldn't need framebuffer anymore. ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel