On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 16:40, David Dawes wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> >But I'm _not_ interested in some interfaces to let user mode just bypass 
> >the kernel. Because they will not solve any of the other problems that 
> >clearly _do_ need solving, and if the X server continues to believe that 
> >it can just access the hardware directly, it will never play well together 
> >with projects like fbcon/dri.
> 
> XFree86 cares more about being a useable X server on a wide range of
> platforms than on playing well with a few Linux-specific hacks.
> 
> The real problem is that you have a mix of ideologies in the Linux
> kernel, each struggling for supremacy. 

Interesting. Could you care to elaborate?

-- 
Torgeir Veimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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