From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932189AbWGaMnE (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:43:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964776AbWGaMnE (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:43:04 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:54480 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932189AbWGaMnC (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:43:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:42:48 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Dave Airlie Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz Subject: Re: [RFC] GPU device layer patchset (00/07) Message-ID: <20060731124248.GA3257@elf.ucw.cz> References: <11535827134076-git-send-email-airlied@linux.ie> <44C253BB.10704@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >Where can I find more info on why this might be nice? > >Or simply more info on what this actually does for me? > > It does nothing for you yet, it is just step one for getting the DRM and > framebuffer drivers to co-exist in the driver model world, with the next > step being allowing a channel of communication between the two layers with > a view that later I can ask the DRM to disable fbdev or pass info to it.. > > Why do we not want fbdev and DRM in one driver? as it would break way too > many existing systems.. > > It also allows DRM to get called at suspend/resume time. Looks good to me. I guess I should get DRM working... I actually tried a bit, and got some reasonably-recent Xserver here, but now I get root@amd:/home/pavel# glxinfo name of display: :0.0 ERROR! sizeof(I830DRIRec) does not match passed size from device driver libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs. libGL error: InitDriver failed libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: :-( Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html