Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:30:30 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 17 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > As for space I do care - imagine having to do Linux installation
> > floppies and having to put 50 video drivers on there which includes
> > acceleration code just to get a simple console display ... its bad
> > enough with the amount of drivers as it is already.
>
> I dont think the the KGIcon people want that.. And I know I dont.
>
> What I would see is a small set of BASIC drivers (like vesafb) that get
> you going. If you want/need better performance you can get an optimized
> driver and load it at runtime..

So when is someone gonna write a simple basic VGA frame buffer device, that
does stupid VGA modes (max. 320x256 in 8bpp, 640x480 in 4bpp) only?
I know VGA is banked, but these days there are mmap() hooks in the frame buffer
device API.

And for a text console on graphics it doesn't matter that much that your video
memory is banked. Only if you want to run XF68_FBDev you need trap handlers for
bank switching.

> I'm not suggesting accelerated drivers should be the default, I dont even
> want them shipped with the kernel. I want dumb drivers as the default
> (like the current 2.1s have) and the ability to either bang the hardware
> from userland (like we have) or the ability to load a modules to give an
> accerated kernel driver (like we have but you dont like).

On PC, default to vgacon. If you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_FB you can
insmod a video driver later if you really want.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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