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Re: I wrote a little graphics thing



> Goals for this little project:
> [...]
> - eventually cover the 'X with a bunch of xterms' use case on
>   hardware where regular Xorg is getting too fat

Why not just use old X?  You'd get a lot of stuff for free.  The most
I'd expect it'd need would be a ddx layer that talks to wscons, and
that only on hardware not already supported by the X you use.  I dunno
about Xorg, but MIT X makes it fairly easy to support dumb-memory
framebuffers.  I've done multiple ddx layers for R6.4pl3.

Admittedly, this would lose the "doesn't use anything not in a basic
NetBSD installation" property.

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