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SubjectDirectFB "Fusion" module inclusion?
Hi all.

This is to request some comments about our interest to have our "Fusion"
kernel module included in the kernel.
I hope you will let me now if it is feasible, desirable, etcetera.

What is Fusion? Fusion is the low-level layer of DirectFB
(www.directfb.org). DirectFB is basically a graphics library that offers
hardware acceleration and multi-process cooperation on top of e.g. the
frame buffer device.

What does Fusion offer? Fusion takes care of IPC by providing the
following primitives: skirmishes (locks), calls (partially via a
user-space library handling callback threads), properties and shared
memory pools. The main two reasons for us to make a kernel module out of
this is: crashing applications will not take down the "DirectFB" system,
since resources are handled in the kernel; and debug
information/deadlock status is shared via /proc/fusion.

Fusion documentation (fusion.pdf) can be found at
http://git.directfb.org/?p=core/linux-fusion.git;a=tree;f=doc;
Fusion source files can be found at the same git location:
http://git.directfb.org/?p=core/linux-fusion.git;a=tree

Fusion is implemented as a device driver with an ioctl interface. In our
case, Fusion is used together with libfusion.so (LGPL), which abstracts
the kernel ioctls away, among other things. DirectFB resides on top of
libfusion.so.

We would probably rework Fusion significantly if needed - we want to
have the benefit of having Fusion inside kernel mainline, and we hope
that it is indeed interesting enough to consider, so let's hear it :)

Greets
Niels

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