Albert> Jes Sorensen writes:
>> Ok lets put it another way: A lot of people use older installations
>> and are not very much interested in upgrading kernels regularly due
>> to the `if it works now, don't try to install something that may
>> break something else' strategy. Thus if we tie the whole graphics
>> acceleration stuff (which primarily means X) to the kernel it means
>> that people will have to run and get new kernels to get the new and
>> improved X servers that can run using acceleration on their
>> hardware same goes for bug fixes.
Albert> That is totally bogus. The same thing applies to SCSI,
Albert> Ethernet, sound, and every other bit of hardware.
No, a thing like vesafb will solve the problem for most gfx cards in
one driver and you don't have the whole accel code included.
>>> Ok fine, I'll take your bet and double it. What PROPER hardware
>>> can I get for X86 that can do FULL ACCELERATION safely from
>>> userspace? It would need to have support for hardware context
>>> switches and be able to get steller performance without the use of
>>> DMAs or IRQs. AFIK there is NONE, and if there it it's not
>>> common..
>> Someone mentioned the Matrox cards
Albert> Nope, they need DMA and an IRQ at the very least. Newer models
Albert> may require more.
Alan mentioned something about a user space DMA API.
Jes
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