From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] neofb patches Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:57:20 +1000 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1083275840.21436.148.camel@gaston> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJJeW-0003BI-DZ for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:05:08 -0700 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=root) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30) id 1BJJeV-00010O-Vi for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:05:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: Otto Solares , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development > > Finally, the geometry of screens is something that has nothing to > > do in the kernel imho. > > I don't like micro kernel designs. This is way micro kernels handle this > problem. This has nothing to do with microkernel design and everything to do with not bloating the kernel with things that don't to be there. Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click