Re: Hurd queries
ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg (Ognyan Kulev) writes:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at GGI's KGI kernel drivers (ie, what fb came from)? I
> > would imagine that the Mach environment would be ideal to host graphics
> > drivers (as opposed to a monolithic kernel.) Or, are people happy with
> > X?
>
> GGI was mentioned in mailing lists a time ago with the same in mind: as an
> alternative of X.
I don't think the main reason for doing some KGI-like translator is
not to replace X, it's just that it's Right Thing to do. If there's
gfx hardware present, there ought to be a decent framebuffer-like
device/translator for it, like for all other hardware. Having X bang
the hardware directly is ugly.
/Niels
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