On 29 May 2002, Justin Carlson wrote: > This is true; I hadn't thought about the cases of userland touching > hardware directly. Of course, I think these cases should be hunted down > and eliminated (go framebuffer device!), but alas, if that ever really > happens, it's not going to be soon. Userland drivers are justified in many cases, so they'd better not go away. Besides, not all display adapters are framebuffers -- do you want an X server in the kernel??? -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
