From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denis Oliver Kropp Subject: Re: [directfb-dev] [directfb-users] DirectFB without FBDev Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:10:01 +0200 Message-ID: <48424B49.8080202@directfb.org> References: <483D7344.6030503@directfb.org> <483D9453.1080700@directfb.org> <483D9C30.8010301@acdstar.com> <483D9F4E.4000707@directfb.org> <20080529165452.GA7708@powerlinux.fr> <4840EB76.6040506@directfb.org> <20080531062127.GA5425@powerlinux.fr> <4840F060.7090500@directfb.org> <20080531064501.GA7526@powerlinux.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2hhj-00011A-Ps for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:10:11 -0700 Received: from directfb.org ([212.227.87.76] helo=www.directfb.org) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1K2hhi-0006Hv-Cn for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:10:11 -0700 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: George Tsalikis Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, directfb-users@directfb.org, directfb-dev@directfb.org George Tsalikis wrote: > I am sorry to intrude in your discussion, since i am not an expert but i > would like to point: > Shouldn't you consider now to become as cross-platform kernel-wise as > possible? DRI is somewhat cross platform running on Linux and BSD. DirectFB is cross platform as it's a user space library and can be ported to any other OS with a bit of POSIX support. There's only a kernel module (usually small) for certain drivers or in case you want to run multiple processes in one session. But if the OS does not have separate processes, it's not required anyhow, as each application is a thread there. What do you mean by kernel-wise? Like DRI with shared kernel code between Linux and BSD or like DirectFB with shared user space code portable over different kernels? -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/