From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 12 8:21: 0 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A900114F3D; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA74037; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:24 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200001121620.LAA74037@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Peter Wemm Cc: Josef Karthauser , "Daniel O'Connor" , Brian Somers , Kirk McKusick , 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 In-Reply-To: <20000112075108.A02B21CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <20000112020032.C95357@florence.pavilion.net> <20000112075108.A02B21CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < 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