Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why??? | Date | Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:18:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> It's a bit weird... No one thinks about implementing SCSI or Ethernet drivers > in user space, but for graphics that's all OK. Worse, for graphics it's even > considered normal that the user space driver plays with the hardware behind the > kernel driver's back...
Have a look at the iscsi back end. There are good reasons to do a lot of the graphics from user space via X11 or via DRM. Performance is one very significant case.
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