From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 23 14: 0:46 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 C8CE337B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:00:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FEC643ED8 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from armor.fastether (nas-cbv-11-62-147-116-81.dial.proxad.net [62.147.116.81]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 44B82FB68 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:00:43 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 12294 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jan 2003 22:14:57 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:14:57 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Doug Rabson Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbusifying kbd? Message-ID: <20030123231457.C12164@armor.fastether> References: <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <1043324244.28124.34.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20030123194314.GE579@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200301232016.50139.dfr@nlsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200301232016.50139.dfr@nlsystems.com>; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:16:50PM +0000 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 On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:16:50PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: [...] > > > > The precondition obviously is that the kernel driver has the same > > HP 2D/3D features as a userland driver. I find it interesting, but > > doubt that it will work in practice. It's hard to write and > > maintain a portable graphics driver that works with dozens of OSes. > > Especially since performance and portability are opposite forces. In that case, this is also the price of security. > > All I'm trying to say is that the XFree86 project and the DRI projects > have already solved the problem of providing reasonable access to 2D > and 3D graphics hardware. There isn't much point in pursuing another > solution that doesn't leverage that work. True, if you only think about using X. If you rather want Qt-embedded+KDE or GGI+Berlin , that's different. -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message