Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:54:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org (Philippe Regnauld) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? Message-ID: <199608262054.NAA23195@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199608260008.CAA02244@tetard.glou.eu.org> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Aug 26, 96 02:08:04 am
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> Last time this topic was up people ran away screaming: "No X in the > kernel, no X in the kernel !"...=20 > > For the intended purpose, I don't think full chipset support is > required :-) Generic VGA should suffice, AFAI.=20 Yes. A minimal (or "fallback") interface is most likely the way to go for any interface you put in the kernel, and then you can optionally replace it with more complex interfaces via LKM. The console code was the original reason for the LKM alpha release (which delayed a shared library release past the point where Novell acquired USL, and put a nice one year crimp in the development cycle, until someone else repeated the work). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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