Christoph Egger wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Rob Taylor wrote:
>
> > I note Direct FB has plans for 'Multi application core using
> > semaphores, shared memory and message queues for simultaneous
> > access of multiple applications to DirectFB'.. what has KGI got
> > in these kind of terms (you'll have to excuse my ignorance, last
> > i read the KGI docs was half a year ago, and they were then far
> > from clear)
I was told that the berlin project had a similar approach in the beginning,
i.e. to provide a very lightweight graphics engine that communicated with
client applications via ipc mechanisms. These ipc mechanisms are not so
much a means to share h/w resources, as to provide some minimal client
server architecture.
(and as to what concerns berlin: we decided to use a higher level abstraction
using 'distributed objects', as that gains us true location transparency,
instead of low overhead local communication)
Regards, Stefan
