Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] video dir reorg

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, James Simmons wrote:
> > Also, i think the drm drivers should compile not only on linux, but on
> > other oses too (BSDs at least).
> 
> That will be difficult. The VM layer to BSD is very very different from 
> linux. There is no way they coudl use the same code set for both without 
> making a mess. 

I think Sven meant the userspace part of DRM. Of course the actual kernelspace
implementation differs.

> > Also, i believe some of the XFree86 guys don't like fbdevs.
>  
> :-(

Yes indeed :-(

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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