On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:24:13PM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> However, it would be a bad idea to declare it a supported interface
> for other ports like the i386. First of all, if we want some kind of
> MI support it's best if it's added to wscons. On i386, it's pretty
> much impossible to support a /dev/fb, because it would mean duplicating
> much of the XFree86 effort for db drivers for each kind of card.
> Which would be a waste and totally impossible because of lack of
> manpower.

Look at Linux. Many people have wanted to have framebuffer
interface simply because they didn't like to play with XFree86. So
they wrote quite a number of fb drivers. I don't see any problem
here.

Kernel fb driver can be also very useful for purposes where XFree86
doesn't fit at all. I know of a Korean company has ported XFree86
to their handheld device, and it requires 16MB just to boot itself,
including Linux kernel. Hardly anybody is willing to buy it since
it's as expensive as Win CE competitors. For short, Linux+XFree86
for handhelds is a total nonsense. As such, NetBSD+XFree86 for that 
purpose is too, isn't it?

Jun-Young

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