Eric Anholt wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:46 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:
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>>With the upcoming ttm merge we will basically be running out of generic 
>>DRM ioctl numbers.
>>We'll be up to at 0x3e and at 0x40 the device-specific commands start.
>>
>>Comments in the code allow device-specific commands the range 0x40 to 0x79,
>>which means we can restart generic ioctls at 0x80 unless there is a 
>>problem with a supported operating system. Linux seems to allow 8 bits 
>>for ioctl numbers. What about *BSD?
>>
>>Should we reserve a larger range for device-specific commands?
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>8 bits on FreeBSD, too.  Sounds good to me.
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OK, Great.
To leave some extra room for device-specific IOCTLS,
I suggest restarting generic ones at 0xA0. That's 96 new IOCTLS.
Should hopefully be sufficient for a while.

/Thomas

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