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LPC: The future of Linux graphicsLPC: The future of Linux graphicsPosted Sep 25, 2008 4:39 UTC (Thu) by deater (subscriber, #11746)Parent article: LPC: The future of Linux graphics
So 10 years after the big flame-war, we're finally going to get a KGI-like layer? I wonder how much better things would have been if Linus had been more reasonable back then.
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LPC: The future of Linux graphics Posted Sep 25, 2008 5:47 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Hindsight is 20/20. :)
LPC: The future of Linux graphics Posted Sep 25, 2008 6:17 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
given that the graphics folks have drasticly changed their mind about what the best solution is within the last year, I doubt if the 10 year old design would have worked well
LPC: The future of Linux graphics Posted Sep 25, 2008 13:41 UTC (Thu) by deater (subscriber, #11746) [Link] Well in that case, why won't they change their mind again? If we had started 10 years ago, maybe X11 would be ready by now. Instead we had 10 years of X11 being able to lock up the machine from userspace.In any case, http://lwn.net/1998/0226/#kernel shows that the issues haven't really changed that much over the years.
LPC: The future of Linux graphics Posted Sep 25, 2008 15:56 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654) [Link]
Agreed. But well... late better than never?
Hopefully, one day, graphics hardware manufacturer will open up all their specs too.
PS: Wow, it was already 10 years ago that I wrote that CL-GD546x driver!! ;-)
LPC: The future of Linux graphics Posted Oct 2, 2008 19:59 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]
Oh, KGI brings back memories... I ran a KGI patched kernel for a while in
90's because working with the framebuffer was so much nicer with it (I just needed to patch it to get "dead keys" working). KGI MGA driver was superior to what was in kernel and KGI drivers were nicely modularized unlike the default kernel gfx code at that time. I was really disappointed that KGI didn't get in, I had gotten used to nice graphical text consoles with earlier Atari & Amiga and at some uni machines and x86 Linux text console was a step backwards.
(Or at least that's what I remember from it. :-))
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