Re: Driver development vs X development

David Dawes ([email protected]):

> I don't think it's necessary to change the driver directory location
> in order to allow drivers to be distributed independently (the Linux
> and FreeBSD kernels didn't do anything like this, and it's possible to
> build driver modules outside of a full kernel build in both of those
> cases).  There just needs to be an SDK type of thing so that they
> *can* be built and distributed standalone outside of the regular
> source tree structure.  The way CVS works, it isn't even necessary to
> do this to allow easy checkout of just individual drivers (that's what
> CVS modules are for).

  The difference between XFree86 and the kernel is that projects like
the video players, DirectFB, and Fresco, would benefit from drivers that
did not rely on an X server, so I see build separation as having
benefits for beginning on this goal as well.

> David Bateman did some work on an SDK for 4.x a long time ago.
> Unfortunately it was constantly getting broken because nobody else
> seemed to care enough about it to take it into account when adding new
> stuff.

  I'll take a look at the current state of the SDK, thanks.

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Billy Biggs
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