On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:24:17PM +0200, Gaël Le Mignot wrote: > > My idea was to implement the driver in userspace and force X to use it. > > Following this dessign, we could end up seeing X running as non-root. > > That would require a huge amount of work I fear, especially if we want > to support hardware acceleration at the end (like xvideo or dri), but > I agree it's the best long-term solution.
Yes. But note the hardware acceleration concept is a dirty hack as a whole. It'd be nice to support it since this is the direction the world takes, but not critical. I can live happily with a screen that is simply a matrix of pixels. > > What we could do is writing the keyboard, vga etc translators, but don't > > implement the actual hardware I/O on them yet. Instead, just use them for > > resource management. > > I was thinking about something like that too, at least until we move > to L4 (implementing user-space drivers on top of Mach is tricky). I started the "user-drivers" project at Savannah some time ago, and started writing simple drivers from scratch. At this point, I think it'd be better to use Oskit instead. To the people who have played with Oskit already, do you think it's viable to use it as a backend for userspace drivers? -- Robert Millan _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
