[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures & memory mapping)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:42 -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:08 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > 
> > I don't see the current system slowly evolving into some superb future 
> > system with an in kernel memory manager. The current APIs just have too 
> > many limitations. I think the memory manager must be the foundation of 
> > everything and after it's in place the fbdev API should be able to use it. 
> > The only change to simple fbdev apps would be that they can't get access 
> > to any offscreen memory as they do now. Something like DirectFB would need 
> > to change to accomodate the new system but I don't see that as a problem.
> 
> I agree on this.

Ok, ok, I'll do crap since that's what everybody wants.

Ben.