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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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