Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 22 May 2007 12:48:25 +1000 |
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On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:51 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > That's the plan; the kernel just provides mechanism. The architecture > used in the X server splits precisely at this point with the mechanism > in the driver and the configuration and policy up in the X server > proper. Quite a bit of that code could be broken out into a shared > library for fbdev-based apps and the X server to share, but that's > down the road a bit after the kernel APIs look a lot more solid.
Ok, good plan then.
> With the goal of getting to a single-mode-set boot to avoid screen > flashing before login, the key here is to make any early user-mode > graphics apps share the same kernel graphics infrastructure as the X > server to identify the common cases where the startup and X modes are > the same and avoid resetting the configuration.
Ok. Fair enough.
Cheers, Ben.
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