On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 01:43:41 -0500 
 "Michael R. Zucca" <mrz5149@acm.org> wrote:

 > If I get the time I'd like to port the linux frame buffer device
 > architecture to NetBSD. That way, I can write my drivers once for both
 > linux and NetBSD, and NetBSD/mac68k can just use the normal XFree86
 > framebuffer X server. The fb capable X server can handle all sorts of
 > weirdness, like interleaved bitplane displays (which we'll need to support
 > 24 bpp on the 8*24GC).

NetBSD already has a generic framebuffer architecture.  It's called
wscons, and scottr is nearing completion of mac68k support for it.

In general, following the XFree86 lead in "architecture" is a bad
idea.  True portability is not their strong suit.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>