Subject: Re: Sharing bus_space maps between drivers
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Vincent <10.50@free.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/29/2006 16:52:07
Martin Husemann hat also geschrieben:
> This sounds all backward. What DRI part are we talking about?
> Is this the chip specific driver that provides abstract DRI services and
> attaches to the same hardware as, for example, vga @ pci?
>
> There are a lot of different ways to organize this. Maybe we even need to
> allow multiple of them:
>
> - vga @ pci and radeondri @ agp both share the hardware via some (tm)
> kind of cooperation.
> - radeondri @ agp owns the hardware, and allows vga @ radeondri (by
> forwarding some of it's bus_space variables, restricted to the common
> vga set)
> - radeondri @ agp completely replaces vga @ pci and directly allows
> wsdisplay @ radeondri (probably using code shared with vga @ pci)
You need also to take into account the radeon framebuffer we try
currently to debug. radeonfb @ agp masks vga @ pci because only one
driver can get attached to a piece of hardware, if I read my NetBSD
correctly. Method 2 is more or less what I was suggesting. But since
there seems to be at least three different drivers competing for the
same space and hardware, I would suggest a forth proposal: developing a
radeon @ pci generic driver that would do nothing but map the chip and
offer access to vga @ radeon, radeonfb @ radeon and radeondri @ radeon.
If this makes somehow sense.
Macht einfach, aber nicht einfacher! ;)
Vincent