Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: radeon-pre-2 | From | Michel Dänzer <> | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:27:56 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:42 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > I think yourself and Linus's ideas for a locking scheme look good, I also > know they won't please Jon too much as he can see where the potential > ineffecienes with saving/restore card state on driver swap are, especailly > on running fbcon and X on a dual-head card with different users.
Frankly, I don't understand the fuss about that. When you run a 3D client on X today, 3D client and X server share the accelerator with this scheme, and as imperfect as it is, it seems to do a pretty good job in my experience.
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