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On Sunday 30 December 2001 02:34, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > However I don't see why _any_ architecture wants framebuffer contents > > to be included in core files. It sounds risky. > > [snip] When X11 locks up, I can still kill it and my box lives. When framebuffers crash, their is no recovery save rebooting. Back in 1995 I thought that linux VTs and X11 implemenation blew Solaris out of the water, and now we want throw away our progress? I'm still astounded by the whole "oooh I can see a penquin while I boot-up" thing? Granted, frame buffers have usage in embedded systems, but do they really have to be so deeply integrated?? -- timothy.covell@ashavan.org. - 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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