Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:47:54 +1200


On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:35:01AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> We don't _need_ virtual consoles. We don't _need_ a parallel port
> driver in the kernel. We don't _need_ TCP/IP in the kernel.
> All of these things can be done in userspace.

No they can't.

At least not with sane secure semantics they can't. And it goes
without saying the we could use a calendar instead of rdtsc for
benchmarks.

-cw

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