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DISCUSSION Ihar 'Philips' Filipau 1 participant 1 message Oct 1, 2003 1 message not in the archive

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hey everyone who have joined this thread, my fundamental question have got out of scope. I mean to say

And we meant to answer.

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1. Kernel level support for graphics device drivers.

Already done. Look for DRI/DRM/framebuffer.

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2. On top of that, one can develop complete lightweight GUI.

That's not a kernel stuff - but it is already done - google around
for microwindows nanogui - you will find links for light-weight GUIs.

Bringing this into kernel space will make it only slower. On
performance critical pathes people avoid simple calls - and you want to bring here system call...

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3. Maybe kernel can provide support for event handling.

Already in place for last two decades - poll()/select().

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