GEM v. TTM [LWN.net]

GEM v. TTM

Posted May 28, 2008 15:08 UTC (Wed) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: GEM v. TTM

"A number of complaints about TTM have been raised. Its API is far larger than is needed for
any free Linux driver; it has, in other words, a certain amount of code dedicated to the needs
of binary-only drivers."

How are the needs of binary-only drivers different than the needs of open source drivers?  Is
TTM offering API pieces that are particularly useful for DRM or something like that?

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GEM v. TTM

Posted May 29, 2008 4:51 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

It's more that the needs of embedded hardware only supported by binary-only drivers are
different.