From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 7 00:40:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15438 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 00:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15433 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 00:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25954; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 00:40:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd025915; Tue Jul 7 00:40:39 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05523; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 00:40:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807070740.AAA05523@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted) To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:40:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joelh@gnu.org, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807070610.PAA21748@cain.gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at Jul 7, 98 03:40:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hmm, well we could port GGI.. > Kernel level graphics drivers :) Tragically, they have made this a closed standard by placing all components, including kernel components, under GPL. This means that the code is useless to anything but a GPL'ed OS, of which there is Linux. The code simple can not be mainstreamed, either by making a GGI using NT and windows 95/98 driver, or by adoption by any commercial or commercially exploitable or commercially embeddable OS. Currently, it serves a proprietary reference implemetnation, usable only by the authors porting platform, Linux. They might as well have implemented The Open Group's new version of X: available to be used, but not utilized, and therefore useless. 8-(. Basically, a totally seperate set of KGI code would be required. Their site claims the beginnings of an OpenBSD port, but hasn't (the US mirror, at least, which is what I can get to) hasn't been updated for over a month: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~mars/ggi/www-interface/ggit-extract-full-article.cgi?67/ If so, the KGI code must be a full rewrite, for the obvious reasons, above. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message