Messages in this thread | | | From | Allan Sandfeld <> | Subject | Re: The new X-Kernel ! | Date | Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:26:23 +0200 |
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On Sunday 21 October 2001 10:33, Jonathan Morton wrote: > Probably because they don't know the difference between kernel and > user space. Kinda understandable when you come from a Mac or Windows > background, where (in the former) there is no distinction or (in the > latter) it's so blurred as to make little difference. > > And if they *do* understand it, from a dispassionate point of view, > it does seem to make sense to put graphics drivers in the kernel - > they're implemented as "device drivers" in every other desktop OS. > Except MacOS X, where's it's an application layer like glibc, but > nobody understand OS X yet beyond the hardest of developers. > We have the AGP, DRM and framebuffer drivers in the kernel anyway. It would make sense to do all the autodetection in kernelspace, and let the info be available to the X-server. I would love to kill all the hardware specific stuff in /etc/XF86Config, especially the keyboard and mouse stuff that belongs in or near the kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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