Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2005-02-22

Re: Ruby redux

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From: James Simmons <hidden>
Date: 2005-02-21 21:55:40

as large console cleanups went into the -mm tree and those cleanups
are also part of the Ruby tree, I thought I look at the Ruby tree
and port it to 2.6.11-rc4 + the following 4 patches:
Yeap. I talked to Andrew Morton and Christoph Hellwig about the patches.
The major difference is that struct vt_struct is removed completely. 
Chris told me we can add in struct vt_struct again at a later time.
Well he actually ask me to rename it to something else. The big patch 
which is really nice is the killing off of the console macros. This is
a good thing that I never got around to doing.
1. cleanup-vc-array-access.patch
2. remove-console_macrosh.patch
3. merge-vt_struct-into-vc_data.patch
4. merge-vt_struct-into-vc_data-fix.patch
As for merging the ruby tree. I would suggest we wait until after the 
summer OSL conference. The reason beinging is that alot of rework is going 
into the fbdev/drm layer. I have ask Jon Smirl to help him with the demo 
at the OSL conference on the next generation X server. 

The next generation X server will be based totally on top of OpenGL using 
drm/fbdev. I'm going to be working with him to make sure that it supported 
full multihead support!!!!! We will not have to do anymore X server hacks. 
All the X Server hack on the PCI bus will go away. So we have alot of work 
ahead. I say by next year this time main stream linux will be 
multi-desktop ready. 



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