On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:51 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
>
> That's the plan; the kernel just provides mechanism. The architecture
> used in the X server splits precisely at this point with the mechanism
> in the driver and the configuration and policy up in the X server
> proper. Quite a bit of that code could be broken out into a shared
> library for fbdev-based apps and the X server to share, but that's
> down the road a bit after the kernel APIs look a lot more solid.
Ok, good plan then.
> With the goal of getting to a single-mode-set boot to avoid screen
> flashing before login, the key here is to make any early user-mode
> graphics apps share the same kernel graphics infrastructure as the X
> server to identify the common cases where the startup and X modes are
> the same and avoid resetting the configuration.
Ok. Fair enough.
Cheers,
Ben.
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