Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:05:49 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. |
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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 20:36:14 +1000 (EST) From: Matty <matt@blitzen.canberra.edu.au>
Back onto the X point, the kernel routines are the low-level stuff specific to the graphics cards. Make them VESA compliant so that as many cards as possible are supported, and the standard kernel API can be called by X to do whatever.....
This is another example of what happens when amatuers post to linux-kernel.... :-)
If you make the routines VESA complaint, then they can't take advantage of any of the card-specific accelerated features. This means that performance of the X server will go *down* as a result.
- Ted
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