From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262033AbTJAIRy (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 04:17:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262037AbTJAIRy (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 04:17:54 -0400 Received: from natsmtp01.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.81]:1266 "EHLO natsmtp01.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262033AbTJAIRx (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 04:17:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7A8E0F.9040903@softhome.net> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:19:27 +0200 From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" Organization: Home Sweet Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030831 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kartikey bhatt CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kartikey bhatt wrote: > hey everyone who have joined this thread, my fundamental question have got > out of scope. I mean to say > And we meant to answer. > 1. Kernel level support for graphics device drivers. Already done. Look for DRI/DRM/framebuffer. > 2. On top of that, one can develop complete lightweight GUI. That's not a kernel stuff - but it is already done - google around for microwindows nanogui - you will find links for light-weight GUIs. Bringing this into kernel space will make it only slower. On performance critical pathes people avoid simple calls - and you want to bring here system call... > 3. Maybe kernel can provide support for event handling. Already in place for last two decades - poll()/select(). -- Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken. -- "... and for $64000 question, could you get yourself vaguely familiar with the notion of on-topic posting?" -- Al Viro @ LKML