Re: DRM code reorganization

[Keith Whitwell]

> > ian: what about splitting the current memory management code into a
> > module that can be swapped for your new version?
>
>
> AFAIK, the only drivers that have any sort of in-kernel memory manager 
> are the radeon (only used by the R200 driver) and i830.  That memory 
> manager only exists to support an NV_vertex_array_range-like extension 
> that some Tungsten customers needed.  I don't think there would be any 
> benefit to making that swappable.
>
> Once the new memory manager is in, 80% (or more) of the code will be in 
> user-mode anyway.  The code that will be in the kernel should be generic 
> enough to be completely sharable (i.e., in a generic DRM library).

Yes, the future is Ian's manager.  The existing ones are built to be discarded 
when something better comes along.

Keith

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