Re: Can't X be elemenated?

Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-10-01T08:17:54Z

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().

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