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Today's Topics:
1. Need info on renderer plugin mecanism (Alexandre Demers)
2. Re: Need info on renderer plugin mecanism (Ray Strode)
3. Re: Plymouth/Upstart integration (Ray Strode)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:24:34 -0500
From: Alexandre Demers <[email protected]>
Subject: Need info on renderer plugin mecanism
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi,
First, I'd like to know if I understand correctly the renderer plugin
mecanism. From what I can see from the source, it seems there is a
plugin for each drm driver (intel/ati/nvidia). Is that right?
If there was a new drm driver in the wild (let's say for an S3 card), it
would need a new plugin and probably to rebuild Plymouth in a whole,
because it digests all plugins in a single lib (drm.so). At least, that
library would need to be recompiled, right?
Also, if no drm driver is on the machine Plymouth is installed to, it
will default by itself to a text interface, isn't it?
So, there is no reason to have absolutly one of the drm libraries for
Plymouth to run.
That's all I need to know for now.
Thank you,
--
Alexandre Demers
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:46:18 -0500
From: Ray Strode <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Need info on renderer plugin mecanism
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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Hi,
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Alexandre Demers
<[email protected]> wrote:
> First, I'd like to know if I understand correctly the renderer plugin
> mecanism. From what I can see from the source, ?it seems there is a
> plugin for each drm driver (intel/ati/nvidia). Is that right?
That's right. There's also an untested libkms backend that in theory
should work for anthing that there is support in libkms for. When
libkms gains support for radeon, i'll probably switch to using it
exclusively.
> If there was a new drm driver in the wild (let's say for an S3 card), it
> would need a new plugin and probably to rebuild Plymouth in a whole,
> because it digests all plugins in a single lib (drm.so). At least, that
> library would need to be recompiled, right?
Right (or get the support added to libkms)
> Also, if no drm driver is on the machine Plymouth is installed to, it
> will default by itself to a text interface, isn't it?
Well, it will fallback to using /dev/fb If that doesn't work either,
then it will use the text interface.
--Ray
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:47:36 -0500
From: Ray Strode <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Plymouth/Upstart integration
To: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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Hey,
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:56:05PM -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
>> (one the one month anniversary of your message...wheee! sorry about that)
>
> Not that I responded to it very much quicker ...
Just a heads up, I'm hoping to look at this soon (maybe this weekend)
--Ray
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