From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 21 1:47:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A1937B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:47:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from uni-sb.de (uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878EA43F18 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:47:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de) Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.31]) by uni-sb.de (8.12.7/2002112700) with ESMTP id h0L9lhQw022446; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:47:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.cs.uni-sb.de (mail.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.200]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.7/2002120200) with ESMTP id h0L9lgm1026475; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:47:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from graphics.cs.uni-sb.de (graphics.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.249.10]) by mail.cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.7/2002112700) with ESMTP id h0L9lfCY015778; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:47:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from radiosity.cs.uni-sb.de (radiosity.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.249.12]) by graphics.cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6Woody) with ESMTP id h0L9lf8Y025300; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:47:41 +0100 Received: from graphics.cs.uni-sb.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by radiosity.cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6Woody) with ESMTP id h0L9leek005447; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:47:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3E2D173C.3040507@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:47:40 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger Reply-To: Alexander@Leidinger.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Nicolas Souchu , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbusifying kbd? References: <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030120074638.A11055@armor.fastether> <20030120222027.GA597@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar wrote: [KGI] > I took a quick look at it. I'm not opposed to having graphics support > in the kernel. The problem I think I see is that we probably have > enough interest to make standard VGA work, but never really have the > people or interest to keep up with the latest and greatest graphics > engine. So, I think this would be useful only in a model where the > graphics drivers are contributed and the X server makes use of it. > So, if XFree86 changes to this model, then I see potential... Chicken and egg problem... as far as I remember (I looked at it looong ago) they have a X server too... or at least they want to provide one. Bye, Alexander. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message