From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: VM86 Daemon Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:07:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030401000746.44732.qmail@web14912.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1049104351.1037.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from web14912.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.248]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 1909Ja-0000tU-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:07:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1049104351.1037.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Antonino Daplas , Kendall Bennett Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , DirectFB-devel I didn't read through the code yet, is this being implemented by adding some new IOCTLs to the fb interface? For example an IOCTL to get the legal modes or to reset the card. Why does it need /dev/vm86, couldn't it just use the fb device and add some new IOCTLS? I would expect to the end user app to only interact with the /dev/fb, it would be unaware of the daemon. This would allow these functions to be transparently added to the driver if the need hardware info becomes available. ===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/