On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:43:09 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the long term I was hoping to design thing such that the two heads > > can be used by two independent users, each could be running X or > > fbdev. > > You mean fbcon ? Unless there is proper arbitration, there can't be 2 > users. Hopefully we'll get there. But in any way, there can be only one > driver in charge of the "card". That is, if X is using UseFBDev, then > yes, it can use one head and fbcon the other. But if X is reprogramming > the whole card, no way fbdev (and I mean -dev in this case) can use the > other head at the same time, that's just not realistic.
I meant fbcon and XGL. Both will be running on fbdev/DRM and using a coordinated memory manager, probably in DRM. Current X is broken for sharing. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
