From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030221AbVIVGzy (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:55:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932154AbVIVGzy (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:55:54 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:56999 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932153AbVIVGzx (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:55:53 -0400 Message-ID: <43325568.8080107@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:55:36 -0700 From: Ian Romanick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rep stsb CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 06020051@lums.edu.pk Subject: Re: In-kernel graphics subsystem References: <20050922055120.23356.qmail@web33203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050922055120.23356.qmail@web33203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: id=AC84030F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDMlVoX1gOwKyEAw8RAgvzAJ41K9u5LQ7GTNe7qfBrWY61+bI32wCeMHIH z4f5g5uzAIgYixVRpQAqZJI= =CYVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----