Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers
From: Jon Smirl <hidden>
Date: 2005-03-01 06:14:35
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The on-going work to support XGL is going to change the significance of modular framebuffers. Right now there is no real need to load framebuffers on X86. In the future XGL is probably going to require that the framebuffer be loaded. When XGL initially starts being distributed people are not going to have framebuffer loaded so modular framebuffer will let you load it on demand. From then on, in the XGL case, if framebuffers weren't modular Redhat would have to compile all 75 of them into their distro kernel. I don't think the framebuffer codebase has received the same level of inspection that a lot of the other kernel code has. This is probably because all X86 users can currently avoid loading them due to VGA compatibility. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click