Some notes on Linux and free drivers

Some notes on Linux and free drivers

Posted Apr 20, 2006 20:20 UTC (Thu) by bockman (subscriber, #3650)
In reply to: Some notes on Linux and free drivers by vmlinuz
Parent article: Some notes on Linux and free drivers

The whole point of DRI/DRM is that the graphics driver runs in the X server, and the kernel just gives it an interface to the card

You're sure about that? Because my understanding is that, on the contrary, the kernel do talks with the graphic card and offers DRI/DRM as an higher-level interface that the X server can use to do its stuff. So the hardware-specific stuff goes in the kernel, not in the X drivers...

or not?

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