Subject: Re: wscons support for various framebuffers (questions from NetBSD sparc newbie)
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/05/2007 01:43:02
>>> I definitely don't want it to be able to read anything but the
>>> framebuffer hardware through the channels of the proper driver.
>> I agree with you, and that's one reason I don't run XFree86.
> Again - it's using /dev/fb*

If it's doing bus enumeration (SBus in this case), I don't care whether
it's doing it through /dev/fb or routing sockets or what.  That simply
is not something an X server has any business doing!

IMO, of course.

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