Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jordan Mendelson" <> | Subject | RE: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source (amusing thread :) | Date | Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:03:38 -0500 |
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> So we can split the $100000 question in two parts: > > 1. When will there be generic support for graphics consoles in the kernel > for non-PC architectures?
As soon as EvStacks development slows down. Jason is programming fast and furious right now making Evstacks a moving target. The problem was that the complexity of supporting non-x86 architectures without EvStacks wasn't worth the effort since there would be a whole lot of duplication of work.
EvStacks and GGI are two very good projects heading in the right directions. There are still bugs which need to be worked out (last I checked, the automagic /dev/display/graph wasn't working and there is a bug or two in regards to the first VC vs the rest).
Libggi is something exceptional, an abstraction layer which works over multiple architectures and platforms. Some of this other stuff they are trying to put into the GGI distributions is a bit questionable, but it's all filled with good intentions.
I'm a hardcore believer in not accessing hardware from userspace. Anything which can crash your machine should be sanitized in the kernel.
Jordan
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