Re: Using wsdisplay from the Xserver

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:53 AM, der Mouse wrote:

> > > Of course, this may be considered a heretical point of view.  But I
> > > still maintain that moving a device driver's job into userland is a
> > > very wrong thing to do in multiple respects.
> > This makes sense until you start to realize that graphics hardware
> > has come a long way since cg14, and the amount of code required to
> > support modern graphics hardware in the kernel would cause you to
> > instead complain about bloat in the kernel.
>
> No, not "support [the] hardware".  I'm not proposing to mvoe the X
> server into the kernel.  Just support _access to_ the hardware.

Already there, even with genfb.
( and I'm sure that's not the first time I tell you )

have fun
Michael
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