From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Souchu Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 23:19:53 +0000 Sender: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040506231953.B23760@armor.freesurf.fr> References: <20040506181639.61975.qmail@web14929.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040506181639.61975.qmail@web14929.mail.yahoo.com>; from jonsmirl@yahoo.com on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:16:39AM -0700 Errors-To: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jon Smirl Cc: dri-devel , mesa3d-dev , fb-devel On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:16:39AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote: > At the X Developers Conference there was a discussion of the issues around > framebuffer and DRI. Theodore Ts'o suggested that I write it up and post it for > discussion. I'm going to try and list all of the issues I've heard from all > sides so some of the proposed solutions are in conflict. The goal of this list > is to provide direction for a topic discussion at the Ottawa Kernel Summit. [...] > A major topic that I missed in the original list was how to handle BSD. DRM is > under the BSD license and FB is GPL. If these two code bases are merged, what > are we going to do about BSD? I don't know the appropriate BSD lists to post > this to so please forward as necessary. What is exactly your question concerning licenses? > Another topic that I missed was, why did kgi fail and what can we do to avoid > repeating the same path this time around. KGI failed to be accepted by linus/linux. You surely don't want repeating this ;) Otherwise, its design is still valid, I believe. -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3