Re: What happened?

[Nicolas S. <ns...@fr...>]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:17:10AM -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> > Was the implementation a prototype or a complete system?
> 
> IIRC evstack was fully functional, but it predates the current KGI 
> by several revisions.

I have to look at it.

[...]
> It isn't really KGI's place to provide an entire bus abstraction system.  
> So as far as that goes we want to do as little as we can while still 
> abstracting to the point where the full range of kernel backends can
> be easily mapped to the kgi meta/function/macro set.

Yes, KGI should only be a wrapper.

> > > The other is to work on modularizing things for Linux so we
> > > can gain a user base once we work out enough kinks that 
> > > we can produce a product that will not wear out potential
> > > developer's patience so fast.
> > 
> > Living outside the Linux tree is really a pain. Note that fbdev guys
> > are still blocked by linus veto on various points.
> 
> Yeah I know, but unless/until a Debian/BSD becomes fully usable I won't be 
> wanting to invest time in building KGI on a BSD system.  I have a lot of 
> limits on my time.

Good to know ;)

Hmm, I don't know how mature Debian/NetBSD is. I'm also strongly considering
NetBSD's console system for FreeBSD. If so, it wouldn't be much a pain to
port KGI to NetBSD.

Nicholas

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