VGA arbiter: removing RAC

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Dec 19 15:12:39 PST 2007


On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:45:53PM -0200, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> The Resource Access Control inside Xorg is the guy responsible to take 
> care of the various resources of memory and to share them in a wise 
> manner when two or more graphics devices are active (think multi-head). 
> As an alternative from RAC we can rely on VGA arbiter.

How much work is the kernel part of the arbiter? You know, the Xserver
is not only used on Linux :-)

Joerg



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