Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/30/06, D. Hazelton <dhazelton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 04:16, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On 5/30/06, D. Hazelton <dhazelton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Like I've said, this has gone onto my list. Now to get back to the
> > > code... I really do want to see about getting this stuff into the kernel
> > > ASAP.
> >
> > You might want to leave the DRM hot potato alone for a while and just
> > work on fbdev. Fbdev is smaller and it is easier to get changes
> > accepted.
>
> Yes, but I have accepted that there is a certain direction and order the
> maintainers want things done in. For this reason I can't just leave DRM
> alone.

fbdev (Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>) and DRM (Dave Airlie
<airlied@xxxxxxxxx>) have two different maintainers. I have not seen
Tony comment on what he thinks of Dave's plans so I don't know what
his position is how driver merging can be acomplished.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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