Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:14:57 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbusifying kbd? Message-ID: <20030123231457.C12164@armor.fastether> In-Reply-To: <200301232016.50139.dfr@nlsystems.com>; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:16:50PM %2B0000 References: <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <1043324244.28124.34.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20030123194314.GE579@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200301232016.50139.dfr@nlsystems.com>
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:16:50PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: [...] > > > > The precondition obviously is that the kernel driver has the same > > HP 2D/3D features as a userland driver. I find it interesting, but > > doubt that it will work in practice. It's hard to write and > > maintain a portable graphics driver that works with dozens of OSes. > > Especially since performance and portability are opposite forces. In that case, this is also the price of security. > > All I'm trying to say is that the XFree86 project and the DRI projects > have already solved the problem of providing reasonable access to 2D > and 3D graphics hardware. There isn't much point in pursuing another > solution that doesn't leverage that work. True, if you only think about using X. If you rather want Qt-embedded+KDE or GGI+Berlin , that's different. -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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