Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch

Avi Kivity
2005-11-22T15:46:46Z

Jon Smirl wrote:

>1) Live in 1998. What happens in five years R200's are no longer
>available, fallback to VGA?
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>2) Temporarily accept the ugly drivers. Let desktop development
>continue. Work hard on getting the vendors to see the light and go
>open source.
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>3) Use Linux on the server and run Mac or Windows on your desktop.
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4) Write a translation layer (for xorg or the kernel) that can load
Windows drivers. Use binary translation for non-x86. Hope the APIs are
not patented.