LCA: Two talks on the state of X [LWN.net]

LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 11, 2008 14:08 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: LCA: Two talks on the state of X by flewellyn
Parent article: LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Is that such a problem, given that mode setting is definitely not performance critical?

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LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 12, 2008 19:22 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

It has nothing to don with being performance-critical, and everything to 
do with low-level hardware interaction.  The Unix philosophy is to have 
the kernel do all direct hardware interaction.