This would bloat our drivers a little, but we could have different levels of fall-back that our drivers can handle, depending on what services are available. There would be a kernel interface to the memory manager that's "just there" in up-to-date kernels. If something tries to use the interface but the daemon isn't going to be there, then the kernel driver automatically splits the graphics memory in half and lets X11 and OpenGL do their own memory management.
I mean, early in development, we're going to do things in a primitive way anyhow. As things get more advanced, we'll just keep the "old way" hanging around to use in case the "new way" isn't all there. On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:56:33 +0100, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > I agree with the sentiments of those who want to fix X by removing > > the requirement for root privilege and somehow making DRI network > > transparent. However, the fact is, no other 3D card works this way > > and nobody is going to criticize this project for not fixing these > > things just now. > > Personally, I'd in fact do quite the contrary. The entire reason I'm > interested in this project is that I'm _not_ interested in graphics. I > want this card to Just Work, which means doing all the usual kernel and > X things so I can just install it and never look back. > > Upto now, I've been able to do just that but had I wanted to buy a new > card today, with the given that I want the drivers to be open-source so > as to not get in the way of anything, I'd have a very seriously limited > choice. Which for me is where this project comes in. > > So, far be it from me to stand in the way of progress, but please allow > me the luxury of ignoring any. Any odd driver architectures (someone was > talking about userspace daemons here!) would for me take away from this > card's attraction. > > Hope that's not just a grumpy reply. Yes, I also like the opportunities > this card brings for all sorts of experimentation (I in fact may want to > do some experiments myself at the BIOS level) but I'd _really_ hope that > the basic software just gave me the Just Works solution sketched above. > > Rene. > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
