Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/24/06, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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