On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:31:16PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:24:36PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > >>Additionally, these changes don't seem to be making it into 2.5, as there > >>is very little divergence between 2.5 and dri cvs, at least last time I > >>checked. > > > > > >That's because 2.5 isn't used on production systems. > > > > So these fixes are going in on the stable branch, not being forwarded to > the maintainers and not being forward ported to the development branch? > > In any case, telling us that the DRM code is a mess is preaching to the > converted. I know it needs overhauling, so does anyone who looks at it. > > A lot of the problem is that the original design of the DRM called for an > extremely heavyweight dma engine, all of which is still there, but isn't > used anywhere except the gamma driver. Get rid of that and all of its Which nobody has used since time immemorial, if i am not wrong. (speaking about the gamma driver) Friendly, Sven Luther