Re: radeon-pre-2

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Llu, 2004-09-13 at 15:52, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> > However, if we want the switch from X to framebuffer to be as fast as
> > switching between different text consoles (assuming they have the same
> > resolution) and if we want to be able to run different Xservers on
> > different consoles or Xserver+framebuffer combinations Jon's proposal
> > wins.
>
> It depends how the various components fit together. Clearly for Radeon
> you want everyone using the DMA command path when DRI is loaded. That
> doesn't require "one driver".

Alan, do I understand right that you are proposing to have two pieces of 
code in the framebuffer - one that can program the card in the absence of 
DRM driver and one that uses CP when it is present ?

                 best

                   Vladimir Dergachev
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