On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid > question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware > Abstraction Layer) to present a reasonably stable interface to binary > video drivers? Think of it as a shim translating a "pseudo-API" into > "the real API" that the kernel exposes directly. Surely, we can do > better than VESA. Give drivers 2 options... > 1) direct kernel access like now > 2) access via the HAL/shim Just read this file and you'll have the answer: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
