I think this has been covered mostly I just want to add that kernel interface DRM is allready needed for most of todays cards. For older cards the older system should still be used and supported, this is not what were talking about with the r200.
The DRM is a kernel driver that allowes the user-apps to use a 3D cards API. Fbdev is smaller then the DRM and will be asimulated and it's functions emulated or replaced. --- Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > --- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Sul, 2004-06-13 at 03:07, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> > >>>Why not help getting mesa-solo working so that we can move to X on > top of > >>>OpenGL? > >> > >>For one, in the two years that is going to take to bear fruit, we need > a > >>working X server. Two because mesa-solo isnt supported on most of > >>the Xorg platforms. > > > > I'm not sure if you mean platforms as in OS or platform as in cards, > but > > mesa-solo runs on the fbdev driver using software mesa. Between fbdev > and the > > accelerated drivers that covers all of the more common hardware. > > But fbdev only covers one of the supported OS'es right? Xorg runs on > the BSD's, > Solaris, Windows/Cygwin, MacOS X, and many other platforms without > fbdev, so it's > very premature to say that work on anything else is wasted. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > __________________________________ 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
