Re: [directfb-dev] DirectFB without FBDev

[George Tsalikis <aliverius-Im0InqVrh0jk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>]

O/H Denis Oliver Kropp έγραψε:
> 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.
> 
I thought it was Linux and among the BSDs only FreeBSD.

> 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.
> 
Speaking about Fusion?

> 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?
> 
I like DirectFB like how it is now. Even though the DRM kernel component 
would save you some coding it would bind DirectFB to a specific team's 
work creating a grade of dependency and limit it to specific kernels 
which is not aiding diversity and evolution. Plus the overhead, plus the 
fact this will get DirectFB one step closer to X which is imo 
"politicaly incorrect".

Would it be hard for you to pick the old FBDev code and adopt it under 
DirectFB? We dont need our own kernel level infrastructure in order to 
go on without DRI.


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