From: rep stsb <repstsb@yahoo.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, 06020051@lums.edu.pk
Subject: Re: In-kernel graphics subsystem
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:35:30 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050922083530.52435.qmail@web33203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509220606.j8M66u8d010990@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
--- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Wouldn't it make more sense to extend the current
> framebuffer driver
> support to support v-sync? (framebuffers are already
> in the kernel, and
> there were so many security holes with svgalib-based
> programs that it left
> a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths)
I am presently wounded and cannot do either until I
heal.
> And having gotten a v-sync interrupt, what would you
> *do* with it?
> You'll need an API here....
svgalib has a vga_waitrefresh() function. It can be
implemented as a block on, either a ioctl or a read,
on a kernel-space driver, or by polling.
mihai cartoaje
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-22 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-22 5:51 In-kernel graphics subsystem rep stsb
2005-09-22 6:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-22 6:51 ` Helge Hafting
2005-09-22 8:35 ` rep stsb [this message]
2005-09-22 6:55 ` Ian Romanick
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2005-09-21 0:05 ` Athar Hameed
2005-09-21 0:30 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-22 10:12 ` Marek W
2005-09-21 0:42 ` Matheus Izvekov
2005-09-21 2:55 ` Christopher Prest
2005-09-21 10:32 ` Dave Airlie
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