On Thu, 6 May 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Jens Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2) We wanted the bare minimum services in the kernel layer for
> > efficient and fast graphics support, and felt as much of the
> > driver code as possible should stay in user space.
>
> Linux kernel people are strongly in favor of changing Xfree to never touch the
> hardware except through device drivers. I have to agree with that, Xfree is
> doing a lot of things that are never going to work in a hotplug system. The only
> way to make hotplug work is for Xfree to tell the kernel what it is doing.
>
Also, I would venture an opinion that, at the moment, the only Unices we
care about is Linux, BSD and Hurd - all open source. The current design
of XFree86 (with everything done in userspace) was motivated by the need
to support commercial Unices (like Solaris or Unixware).
> >
> > 3) GPL License. We needed a BSD style license to allow IHV's the
> > option of a closed source driver.
>
> Top proposal right now is to merge FB and DRM. FB has the GPL license with too
> many developers so it probably can't be converted to BSD.
I would imagine that parts of fb and drm would need to be rewritten to
accomodate new requirements. What about making new interfaces LGPL - this
should work fine with both GPL and non-GPL software ?
>
> There are many advatanges to merging FB/DRM. Top ones include SAK, secure
> attention key, kdbg support, OOPS while X is running, mode support for
> mesa-solo, etc....
I would be delighted to have km functionality (GATOS capture module)
merged into DRM/FB combination.
best
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> What is the state of the FB equivalent on BSD?
>
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