On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:49:50 +0100, Jerome Glisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Airlie wrote: > > I was wondering what is going on with drm & fbdev merging ? > Still planed ? Is the drm-core is a first move in that direction ?
I have two new babies in the house that were born two months premature. Taking care of them is a full time job for everyone and it has stopped me from working on the fbdev/drm merge. Some kind of fbdev/drm merge is a requirement of getting X on GL working. drm-core is a required first step of doing the merge. The next step I did was to add second head support to the fbdev driver. I have this on my local machine. Adding the second head to fbdev exposed all kinds of problems in the fbinfo structure since it only assumed a single head. The fbdev design probably needs some work because it passes the fbinfo structure (with 500 fields) into the fbconsole. fbconsole uses a few of these fields but ignores most of them. This design makes it pretty much impossible to call fbconsole directly from drm since I don't have an fbinfo structure. So a decision needs to be made to either a) rework fbinfo into a device/head(s) model. This will make it's structures align with drm but it impacts all of the fbdev drivers. fbconsole only needs a subset of the head structure. b) just add mode setting/cursor support to drm and ignore fbdev. The code for implementing this would come from fbdev. This lets me alter the structures without changing fbdev. I would need to make a drmconsole based off fbconsole that uses the new structures. Neither of these are good choices and both involve a lot of political problems and turf wars. I'm starting to get a little free time now so I can start looking at these problems again. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
