Raymond Jennings wrote:
Oh my!
Judging from the large number of *flames* I got for suggesting it, I guess a kernel module for X is not such a good idea after all.
Oh well, I hope it was at least worth brainstorming.
XFree86 *might* wish to consider a "modulette" to cover things that userland CAN'T do, like AGP, DMA, IRQ, and so on. Or maybe the modulette could grant I/O privileges on behalf of an X server that opens it (thus the X server doesn't require root privileges)? Perhaps some extensions to /dev/framebuffer? A smaller module may involve less overhead.
Does the notion of a kernel module have ANY merit at all? Or was the idea complete garbage?
PLEASE: Don't flame me, and if there are serious flaws with my ideas, please be specific so I know what to fix.
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