Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] DRM and pci_driver conversion

[jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Face it, a good graphics driver needs more than just "set up the ROM". It
> needs DMA access, and the ability to use interrupts. It needs a real 
> driver.
> 
> It basically needs something like what the DRI modules tend to do.

On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> X goes to hardware directly, but that's just because it should do it. 
> And exactly _because_ it's an application, it can be just about as
> complex as it wants (and needs) to be.  So you have a user-level device
> driver: is that not a good idea? The microkernel people are jumping up
> and down and wetting themselves in excitement over things like that. 

Its not that I dont think you are entitled to change your mind.  Its just
that the second version is so quotable that it has stuck in my mind oh
these many years.

Jim