On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:08:27AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > > Oh, but I was not suggesting that. I just meant that interrupt handling 
> > > code is self-contained and can easily serve several consumers.
> > 
> > I'm with you here. And the same should IMHO hold for DMA handling. And for 
> > memory management of course.
> 
> DMA handling is the main piece of what the DRM does,

The actual bits that feed DMA buffers to the hardware are very small. And 
I just meant that like the IRQ code those need to be easily accessible 
from other components (fbdev, video capture module etc.)

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