Linux too please

Posted Aug 29, 2005 21:46 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Linux too please by corbet
Parent article: Fedora: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming

There is (userland) API and (in-kernel) API. I understood the former in the grandparent...

Linux too please

Posted Aug 29, 2005 21:51 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (1 responses)

Unfortunately, kernel-userland API is irrelevant when we are talking about being able to "update a single driver".

Linux too please

Posted Aug 30, 2005 16:03 UTC (Tue) by obi (guest, #5784) [Link]

I thought we were talking about Xorg here?

Drivers _are_ userland, except for some that use the DRM (mostly for 3D functionality), which isn't distributed/integrated with Xorg but with the kernel.

Which drivers are you referring to exactly?