Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Jeff Garzik]

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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