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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:52:26 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy
Message-ID:  <20000113105225.N26217@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000112150941.B68030@florence.pavilion.net>; from joe@pavilion.net on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:09:41PM %2B0000
References:  <20000112075108.A02B21CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200001120844.AAA52446@rah.star-gate.com> <20000112150941.B68030@florence.pavilion.net>

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-On [20000112 17:50], Josef Karthauser (joe@pavilion.net) wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:44:52AM -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote:
>> > 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.

>> If you can imagine doing a system call for every line that you want to draw and
>> also a great opportunity to lose your scheduling;then, yes moving the device
>> specific ddx layer to the kernel is feasible 8)

>Hmm, smells a bit of NT ! :)  Graphics in the kernel that is.

And every analysis of NT will reveal that putting the graphics drivers
in the kernel will not benefit the stability of the overall system.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai           asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl]
Documentation nutter.          *BSD: Technical excellence at its best...  
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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