On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 15:23, Keith Whitwell<kei...@vmware.com> wrote:
>
>
> Maybe VIA can provide some userspace code without putting together an
> entire driver.
>
> A handful of standalone programs that exercise the interface would help
> evaluate the interfaces and might be sufficient to serve as guide to
> someone wanting to use this module.
>
> A handful would include:
>
>  -- draw a triangle
>  -- draw a textured triangle
>  -- draw a triangle using indexed vertices
>  -- some sort of occlusion query
>
> At least then there would be some concrete examples of this in use so
> that an interested party wouldn't later have to work from scratch.

Well, given that you'd be (first and foremost, IMO) trying to evaluate
the security of the DRM module, this would also require some code
demonstrating DMA transfers and texturing over AGP/PCI...

In any case, a similar situation occured before (open DRM driver but
proprietary user space bits):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/809146

Stephane

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