Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:19:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On 18 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > >>>>> "Jon" == Jon M Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu> writes: > > Jon> On 17 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > >> Will you please stop calling them fbcon drivers then - they > > >> clearly are not. > > > > Jon> Who the hell are you to say what is and is not an fbcon > > Jon> driver? fbcon-kgi.c is a lot more conformant to the fbcon driver > > Jon> API as a whole than a lot of the fbcon drivers that are in the > > Jon> kernel. > > > > They may be abscon drivers, NOT fbcon drivers. > > They are frame buffer devices, hence fbcon drivers. > > But unfortunately we added support for frame buffer specific ioctls, and that's > what they're (ab)using to get accel in the kernel :-)
You added ioctls to allow access to card-specific functionality, right? Well, accels are just another type of card-specific functionality.
Jon
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