Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | jlnance@unity ... | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:01:42 -0500 | Subject | Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] DRM and pci_driver conversion |
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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.
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