Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:32:30 +1000 | From | Dave Airlie <> | Subject | Re: In-kernel graphics subsystem |
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> > We are a group of three undergrad CS students, almost ready to start our senior project. We have this idea of integrating a graphics subsystem with the kernel and doing away with the X server. We are not really sure if this is a wise thing to do. It hasn't been done before. Your comments on this idea will be very helpful. > >
This isn't a good idea, the whole idea of dumping the X server has been done to death, you might notice we still have an X server... as mentioned fbui and also DirectFB does a lot of things (not all in-kernel....)
What might be an interesting side project that is fairly self contained would be a userspace console with full support for international languages and Unicode/UTF-8 rendering, using freetype/xft code. Jon Smirl suggests this in his http://www.freedesktop.org/~jonsmirl/graphics.html paper and I've thought it would be an interesting idea to implement at some point,
You could sit it on top of OpenGL or directly on the drm/fbdev layers (probably a bit harder) an OpenGL rendered console would be a good enough start I suppose...
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