From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 12 0:47: 7 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 77AF114CC9; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:46:57 -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 AAA52446; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:44:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <200001120844.AAA52446@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 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: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:51:08 +0800." <20000112075108.A02B21CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:44:52 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. If you can imagine doing a system call for every line that you want to draw and also a great opportunity to lose your scheduling;then, yes moving the device specific ddx layer to the kernel is feasible 8) To Josef: XFree86 has specific "drivers" for vga cards which know the vga card at the register level and at that level rarely do two vga chipsets have the same low register level interface;additionally, the vga "driver" has to know about : ramdac, max clock setting, and monitor specifications. It can be done however I don't think is worth it. Just Run X. The system fails while on X attach the console to a serial port or better yet write a gdb interface to ethercards . I used to work at HP and they had a cool networked kernel debugger so in principle and by example it can be done. -- 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