Re: What's left over. (Fbdev rewrite)

Re: What's left over. (Fbdev rewrite)

[svetljo]

Hi it's really great  feature,
i'm useing the 2.4 backport 
(sadly without the framebuffer drivers)
it works without problems.

if it's included in 2.6 
one could use one  PC for 2,3 or more users at the same time
in case the framebuffer drivers work
( the case with 2.5 , 2.6) 
one could use 2 double headed cards on 1 PC for 4 users

i think this very important feature let say for univercities, libraries, internet cafes ........
it cost so much less per user 


 
 

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Svetoslav Dimitrov Slavtschev

svetljo@lycos.com
svetoslav@web.de



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Re: What's left over.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> 	Here is the list of features which have are being actively
> pushed, not NAK'ed, and are not in 2.5.45.  There are 13 of them, as
> appropriate for Halloween.

I'm unlikely to be able to merge everything by tomorrow, so I will 
consider tomorrow a submission deadline to me, rather than a merge 
deadline. That said, I merged everything I'm sure I want to merge today, 
and the rest I simply haven't had time to look at very much.

> In-kernel Module Loader and Unified parameter support

This apparently breaks things like DRI, which I'm fairly unhappy about,
since I think 3D is important.

> Fbdev Rewrite

This one is just huge, and I have little personal judgement on it.

> Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)

I don't know what this buys us.

> statfs64

I haven't even seen it.

> ext2/ext3 ACLs and Extended Attributes

I don't know why people still want ACL's. There were noises about them for 
samba, but I'v enot heard anything since. Are vendors using this?

> ucLinux Patch (MMU-less support)

I've seen this, it looks pretty ok.

> Crash Dumping (LKCD)

This is definitely a vendor-driven thing. I don't believe it has any 
relevance unless vendors actively support it.

> POSIX Timer API

I think I'll do at least the API, but there were some questions about the 
config options here, I think.

> Hotplug CPU Removal Support

No objections, but very little visibility into it either.

> Hires Timers

This one is likely another "vendor push" thing.

> EVMS

Not for the feature freeze, there are some noises that imply that SuSE may 
push it in their kernels. 

> initramfs

I want this.

> Kernel Probes

Probably.

		Linus

Re: What's left over. (Fbdev rewrite)

[Helge Hafting]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Fbdev Rewrite
> 
> This one is just huge, and I have little personal judgement on it.

This lets me use a multihead console, which lets me
run two X workstations in one pc. Two (or more)
keyboards, mice and screens.  But only one
expensive mainboard, only one space-consuming case.

Great for home use, possibly at work too.

Those who care about clean code can enjoy
the separation of framebuffer and console too.

Helge Hafting