begin Timothy Miller quotation of Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:19:10PM -0500: > To be honest, I'm not even sure if we'll want to use DRI. We need the X > server to be able to sleep while waiting on interrupts. We also need > for the X server to be able to do most DMA without the ioctl overhead. > If DRI doesn't give us exactly what we need for best performance, we'll > need our own driver.
The X folks are changing all that anyway. "Given the dramatic changes in system architecture and performance characteristics since the original user-mode X server architecture was promulgated, it makes sense to look at how the system should be constructed from the ground up." -- Keith Packard Getting X Off The Hardware http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xserver_ols2004/ -- Don Marti http://zgp.org/~dmarti/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
