Jon Smirl wrote:
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.
Strongly agreed, there. There should be ONE hardware driver for a piece
of hardware. The core hardware driver should register with various
subsystems, and use the appropriate common code libraries from there.
Just like all other Linux drivers do...
Jeff
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