Re: The new X-Kernel !

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:09:05 +0100 (BST)


> (DRI does most of this today)

Your description of DRI is btw mostly wrong.

> 2. user-space library maps from a convenient platform-neutral API (i.e.
> OpenGL) to card-specific buffers of drawing commands.

Its called X11

> 3. user-space window server process owns the only visible framebuffer in
> video RAM. Clients give the window server the address of their private

You might hae numerous visible frame buffers

> 5. Linux/UNIX people mostly don't give a sh*t about good graphics.

6. More likely Dan doesn't know **** about real graphics hardware ;)

Alan
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