Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:52:04 -0800 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Subject: Re: new X11 project Message-ID: <20081108065204.14175933@tau.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <20081108145421.5c47c31c@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <0E1DCF36-07A1-4A7F-8784-477709445C26@telenix.org> <20081108145421.5c47c31c@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:54:21 +0100 Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:52:43 -0500 > Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > > > [This is my first time running this mail composing tool, tell me > > if it's doing something evil I don't see, ok?] > > > > I just got pointed at a URL, if you haven't, it's most likely > > worth your time to read this; > > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_wayland&num=1 > > > > I only briefly looked at this, but it seems like they want to pull > ever more of the functionality of the X-server into the kernel. > > This is definitely the wrong approach and smacks of Microsoft type > thinking to me. > > Simplifying user-land at the cost of greatly complicating the kernel > is a giant step backwards. > I'm not sure if it's the same idea, but I read an interview with Keith Packard a few months ago where he was saying that X.org plans on moving more functionality into the kernel too: in particular apparently there's lots of code in userland which replicates the PCI access code from the kernel. They're moving that stuff into the kernel and removing the duplication. He made a point of saying that the kernel interface is being made generic so any OS will be able to implement it. -- Bruce Cran -- Bruce Cran
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