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From: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
To: rep stsb <repstsb@yahoo.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 06020051@lums.edu.pk
Subject: Re: In-kernel graphics subsystem
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:55:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43325568.8080107@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050922055120.23356.qmail@web33203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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rep stsb wrote:
> Athar Hameed wrote: 
> 
>>We are a group of three undergrad CS students, 
>>almost ready to start our senior project. We have
>>this idea of integrating a graphics subsystem with
>>the kernel
> 
> A thread about getting vertical synchronization
> interrupts from a video card is available at, 

This functionality is already exposed by the DRM for several cards.
Since work is happening on the X side of things (i.e., EXA) that will
make having a DRM for even non-3D cards desireable, this is probably a
better route to go.

Either that or extend the existing fb drivers.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22  6:55 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
2005-09-22  6:55 ` Ian Romanick [this message]
     [not found] <AcW+QBo8uJ+XV7vHTZWR1mo7M5VcNg==>
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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