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    SubjectRe: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] DRM and pci_driver conversion
    On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Face it, a good graphics driver needs more than just "set up the ROM". It
    > needs DMA access, and the ability to use interrupts. It needs a real
    > driver.
    >
    > It basically needs something like what the DRI modules tend to do.

    On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > X goes to hardware directly, but that's just because it should do it.
    > And exactly _because_ it's an application, it can be just about as
    > complex as it wants (and needs) to be. So you have a user-level device
    > driver: is that not a good idea? The microkernel people are jumping up
    > and down and wetting themselves in excitement over things like that.

    Its not that I dont think you are entitled to change your mind. Its just
    that the second version is so quotable that it has stuck in my mind oh
    these many years.

    Jim
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