Mark Vojkovich wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Emmanuel ALLAUD wrote:
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
I'd like to suggest that you implement device-specific code as a kernel
module.
Well, that won't happen; we already have working portable driver code
in userspace, and there's no
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
AC (Of course, we do this somewhat on Solaris/sparc,
Do you document the interface ?
Partially - the generic interfaces all frame buffer drivers
support are documented in the fbio(7) man page (available
online at http://docs.sun.com/ ) and some frame buffer drivers
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
I'd like to suggest that you implement device-specific code as a kernel
module.
Well, that won't happen; we already have working portable driver code
in userspace, and there's no chance we'll port that to the Linux kernel.
On the other hand, I do think that we'll
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Emmanuel ALLAUD wrote:
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
I'd like to suggest that you implement device-specific code as a kernel
module.
Well, that won't happen; we already have working portable driver code
in userspace, and there's no chance we'll port that to the
Raymond Jennings wrote:
I'd like to suggest that you implement device-specific code as a kernel
module.
This has been discussed to death. XFree86 is portable to systems where
we can't just willy-nilly add kernel modules. With few exceptions, such
as to implement hardware 3D, this is right
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:12:56 +, Raymond Jennings wrote:
I'd like to suggest that you implement device-specific code as a kernel
module.
Have something like /dev/videocard or /dev/framebuffer, and a kernel module
to control it
Cause reads and writes to access video memory, and have IOCTL's
Raymond Jennings wrote:
I'd like to suggest that you implement device-specific code as a kernel
module.
For which kernel? XFree86 runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris, Windows (Cygwin), OS/2, and a few more platforms, each with
a different kernel architecture (and in Linux's case,
AC (Of course, we do this somewhat on Solaris/sparc,
Do you document the interface ?
Juliusz
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:05:23PM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
XFree86 runs quite well
in many non-Linux environments today.
Not to mention that Linux was only the third or fourth platform that XFree86
ran on, with several SYSV versions and 386BSD pre-dating the Linux port :-).
As to the original
