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    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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