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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy 
Message-ID:  <200001121620.LAA74037@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000112075108.A02B21CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
References:  <joe@pavilion.net> <20000112020032.C95357@florence.pavilion.net> <20000112075108.A02B21CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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<<On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:51:08 +0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said:

> The only way to do this is to move the hardware-specific parts of XFree into
> the kernel and provide a ddx device for XFree to use.

Not necessarily.  An alternative approach would be to define a
machine-independent language (similar to BPF), and have the X server
(or other console graphics system) upload a small program written in
this language which performs the state-restoration function.

-GAWollman

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