Linda Fellingham wrote:
> I have asked those companies if we could explore open source
> for these drivers
I understand why Sun can not open up the 3rd party graphics card
device drivers, but could Sun open up the Sun OpenWindows X server
code that dynamically loads DDX handler modules at run time?
Then, with a lot of work, we might teach the Xorg X server to load
the closed source binary device drivers.
This Sun document describes the loadable DDX interface from
the device driver writer's point of view:
<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-5903>
I would like to see a version that describes the interface
from the X server writer's point of view.
Pat
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