On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:51 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > That's the plan; the kernel just provides mechanism. The architecture > used in the X server splits precisely at this point with the mechanism > in the driver and the configuration and policy up in the X server > proper. Quite a bit of that code could be broken out into a shared > library for fbdev-based apps and the X server to share, but that's > down the road a bit after the kernel APIs look a lot more solid.
Ok, good plan then. > With the goal of getting to a single-mode-set boot to avoid screen > flashing before login, the key here is to make any early user-mode > graphics apps share the same kernel graphics infrastructure as the X > server to identify the common cases where the startup and X modes are > the same and avoid resetting the configuration. Ok. Fair enough. Cheers, Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
