On 5/24/06, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote:
It has absolutely nothing to do with the GPL vs BSD licensing on the
code it has to do with the belief that fbdev isn't a complete enough
model to do what needs to be done and merging it into the DRM is just
going to make things worse rather than better, I've no idea where you
ever came up with it being a licensing thing at all... the FreeBSD ppl
have on interest in taking fbdev code anyways...
I got giant earfuls of the BSD issue from EricA. But, Dave, you are
more reasonable than some of the other X developers so I'm not putting
blame on you. I did notice that you didn't deny the part about zero
forward progress in the kernel.
I do stand by my opinion that building a driver bus so that three
independent drivers (fbdev, DRM, XAA/EXA) can simultaneously multitask
on a single piece of hardware is not a good design. It is a political
solution, not a technical one.
--
Jon Smirl
[email protected]
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