On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:15:47 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> Without specifying a design here are a few requirements I would have:
>>
>> 1) The kernel subsystem should be agnostic of the display server. The
>> solution should not be X specific. Any display system should be able
>> to use it, SDL, Y Windows, Fresco, etc...
>
> of course, but that doesn't mean it can't re-use X's code, they are
> the best drivers we have. you forget everytime that the kernel fbdev
> drivers aren't even close, I mean not by a long long way apart from
> maybe radeon.
matroxfb is clearly better than the X driver. atyfb too IMO.
--
Ville Syrjälä
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