Re: radeon-pre-2

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:42 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > I think yourself and Linus's ideas for a locking scheme look good, I also
> > know they won't please Jon too much as he can see where the potential
> > ineffecienes with saving/restore card state on driver swap are, especailly
> > on running fbcon and X on a dual-head card with different users.
>
> Frankly, I don't understand the fuss about that. When you run a 3D
> client on X today, 3D client and X server share the accelerator with
> this scheme, and as imperfect as it is, it seems to do a pretty good job
> in my experience.

Not that good - try dragging something while a DVD video is playing.

But, I don't understand what the fuss is about either. What's wrong with 
putting PLL setting code inside DRM driver and letting it be the client of 
fbcon ? And the transition problems could be well solved by leaving the 
existing fbcon in for the time being, it is not like the kernel does not 
have duplicate drivers.

                     best

                       Vladimir Dergachev

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