Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:11:30 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy Message-ID: <200001121911.LAA57020@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:24 EST." <200001121620.LAA74037@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:51:08 +0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said: > > > The only way to do this is to move the hardware-specific parts of XFree into > > the kernel and provide a ddx device for XFree to use. > > Not necessarily. An alternative approach would be to define a > machine-independent language (similar to BPF), and have the X server > (or other console graphics system) upload a small program written in > this language which performs the state-restoration function. > No need to get that fancy and besides such language will probably be too complicated to the describe . I would just have the X server load a kernel module with the given code and state variables so that another kernel module can restore the graphics context . -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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