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

[Michel Dänzer]

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.


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