From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 12 11:13:10 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C0215496; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA57020; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:11:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <200001121911.LAA57020@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Peter Wemm , 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: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:24 EST." <200001121620.LAA74037@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:11:30 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty 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. > No need to get that fancy and besides such language will probably be too complicated to the describe . I would just have the X server load a kernel module with the given code and state variables so that another kernel module can restore the graphics context . -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message