Dan Price wrote:
> I also reviewed the example (from Alan's mail) and found it to be really
> complex-- I didn't feel that I'd ever think to look in application/x11
> if I was trying to get a new video driver. Putting on my "new user"
> hat: The "graphics subsystem" is part of the *system software*-- it's
> not an application I install on the system.
There should be a mail thread in the archives where Danek and I discussed
this - I originally put them under driver, but he objected to things that
drive hardware but live outside the kernel being called "driver". I
still think it's less confusing to non-kernel-engineers to group all drivers
in the same place, and not worry about whether they're kernel space or user
space - though can also argue that X is a special case, since if we were
using these names on the full current Nevada contents we might have
driver/video/Xsun-nvidia, driver/video/Xorg-nvidia-open-source, and
driver/video/Xorg-and-kernel-nvidia-accelerated, or on SPARC,
driver/video/kfb-kernel, driver/video/kfb-Xsun, and in a couple builds,
driver/video/kfb-Xorg.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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