From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 00:51:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA02442 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02437 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:51:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03511 for FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:50:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA00826; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:42:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:42:42 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns References: <199702161033.LAA01362@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199702170127.TAA02237@nyx.pr.mcs.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702170127.TAA02237@nyx.pr.mcs.net>; from Chris Csanady on Feb 16, 1997 19:27:19 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Chris Csanady wrote: > Just a thought, but what about using some sort of generic frame > buffer driver in the kernel. I dont think it should be the > responsibility of the Xserver or anything else to twiddle with the > cards settings directly. The kernel would just need to know a few > card specific things about setting timings, etc. Basically: Yes! However: have you ever counted the number of hardware-dependant code lines in XFree86? No? Then you don't know what you're talking about. :~) Last time i counted, we spoke about some 200+ Klines of C code. :-O Have a look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/set2061/, just to get the feeling for _one_ (now already fairly aged) piece of hardware that needs to be supported, the ICD2061A clock synthesizer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)