> > 2. Create an easy, standardized, and well documented kernel video driver > > interface that allows card manufacturers to easily create a video driver > > for Linux. > > What about OpenBSD? All the world is not VAX^WLinux.
And FreeBSD, and NetBSD, and Plan9, and... What we need is a standardized and well documented device driver interface at the source code level that works with all the FOSS OSes. It is more than a bit annoying to have OS A support hardware platform foo, but not have a device driver for blah, and OS B has a device driver for blah but doesn't run on hardware platform foo. Device drivers MUST have source code available. Binary-only drivers are simply not acceptable. > Linux supports more hardware out > of the box than any operating system in the world, Actually that would be NetBSD. Linux is probably second. > > If the interface isn't stable, if it is going to change with > > every new release of the kernel, then that would be a huge expense to > > anyone who cares to create a driver. My understanding is that the real reason the penguins keep changing the interface is to discourage binary-only drivers. It isn't working. If the penguins don't want binary drivers, than ban them. Constantly churning the interface just creates problems. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
