On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:
> > > Are they totally satisfied with the current state ?
> >
> > Linus appears to be happy to let the DRI people deal with this
> > sort of thing for now. Their system is a _little_ more powerful than
> > /dev/agpgart (they implement some generic reader/writer locking and
> > synchronized DMA flushes), but not much.
>
> Linus is devoted to the idea of the DRI. I guess you didn't see my thread
> in December of last year about DRI. BTW I won that debate with him. After
> I'm done with rewriting the console layer for linux I will begin work on
> a new graphics system for linux. First the mix of the graphics system and
> the console system needs to go away.
>
> > > Or do they
> > > assume that there is no life after X ? ;)
> >
> > It seems that way.
>
> Yes :-( Linus will die by X. He considers it the only important app for
> linux.
It seems, that the time comes, where KGI can go into the kernel, no?
Christoph Egger
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