From: Michal Moskal (malekith@pld.org.pl)
Date: Thu 31 May 2001 - 11:15:33 IDT
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:46:56PM -0500, Mihai Cartoaje wrote: > The client sends the server a VGA_START_COMMAND token, > an index for the svgalib function which should be called, > as well as the arguments, and the server calls the function > and sends back the return value, if any. The server > can read and write the registers, of course. We're going close to X. Is SVGAlib going to be lightwight X? I, personally, don't see anything wrong about that :) One can even imagine windows managed by server and so on. However I'm not sure if it's good idea.... Anyhow the client-server model is the only way to make an firewall between application and hardware, while mmap() may make it effcient enough. -- : Michal ``,/\/\, '' Moskal | | : GCS {C,UL}++++$ : | |alekith @ |)|(| . org . pl : {E--, W, w-,M}- : | : {b,e>+}++ !tv h : Current project: http://aleph-0.dhs.org/ywindow/ : PLD Team member ------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: To: listbot@svgalib.org Body: unsubscribe linux-svgalib
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