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/
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