Re: How about running X on top of something else?

Christoph Egger <[email protected]> wrote:

> >    You can write an XFree86 driver within the current driver model
> > that is built on top of something else like GGI.  Nobody has done
> > it.  I even gave a personal invitation to do this to the GGI folks 
> > years ago and they declined.
> 
> No, that's NOT possible. You can't prevent XFree86 to access
> hardware-resource like pci and input stuff.
> There was a try to write a GGI driver for XFree86, but it came out
> this is impossible, because of that. Sorry.

Impossible? No, definately not. Given that GGI was supposed to be a 
General Graphics Interface, it should have absolutely no bearing on 
whether XFree86 wants to handle input or PCI enumeration. If the input 
layers in GGI are too closely tied to the graphics layers, then you have 
a serious design problem in GGI. Graphics should be useable as a 
completelyl separate entity.

As for PCI access, our SNAP drivers do all their own PCI enumeration and 
XFree86 does it's own, and they coexist very peacefully.

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