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DateFri, 27 Mar 1998 18:06:56 +0100 (CET)
FromGeert Uytterhoeven <>
SubjectRe: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Vagn Scott wrote:
> Manuel J. Galan wrote:
> > Maybe instead of bloating the kernel with more and more services,
> > it would be wiser to unload it as much as possible keeping the
> > bare essentials?
> 
> Exactly.
> The bare essentials should go in the kernel.
> 
> There is a problem.
> The Xservers are crashing systems.
> 
> There is a solution.
> Put the bare essentials into the kernel so that
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Xservers can be written which don't crash systems.

So what do you need in the kernel?

  - support for text mode on graphics boards that support text mode
  - support for text mode on graphics boards that don't support text mode
    (perhaps with some basic support for rectangular blits, to speed up
     scrolling)
  - support for setting a specific video mode

Yep, that's all. Graphics acceleration should be done in user space, just mmap
the acceleration registers.

There's even a project for it, and it works, on m68k, PPC, AXP, ia32, and soon
on ARM:

    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/Console/

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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