Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[James Simmons]

> > Graphics cards are the same way. Especially high end ones. They have pipes
> > as well. For low end cards you can think of them as single pipeline cards
> > with one pipe.
> 
> It still frosts my shorts that DRM (e.g. /dev/dri/card0) doesn't use
> write().  It's a natural way to feed pipelines.  But no, it's a raft
> of ioctl() calls.  *sigh*

I never liked this either. ioctl calls are slooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

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