X11 sample server

[Russell Shaw]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 12:48 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>Where do i find the oftenly mentioned "sample server" source?
> 
> 
> Once upon a time, UNIX vendors thought they could "add value" by
> proprietary extensions and enhancements.  Over the years, the folly of
> their ways have become clear.  While on some "legacy" UNIX systems you
> may find such things, over time, more and more of the worthwhile of them
> have found their way into the "sample server" implementation that is
> standardly used on Linux and *BSD, and more and more on older UNIX
> implementations.
> 
> So the "sample server" is now really the production server most people
> use, despite the name.
> 
>>Is it in the xc tree with everything else?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>How can i tell what files belong to the sample server
>>and what belongs to specific implementations?
> 
> There are a number of driver frameworks where specific drivers can be
> found; XAA (AKA the XFree86 driver framework) is the most commonly used
> family; kdrive is often appropriate for embedded use, and there is work
> underway on two other driver framworks: one based entirely on OpenGL,
> and the other called EXA, which should allow us to deploy composite and
> other new extensions sooner on much existing hardware.
> 
> The long term future, to be clear, is seen as the GL based driver, but
> it will be a while before it is deployable.

Hi,
Which project do you mean by the OpenGL one? (there seems to be a few
variants)

> You will also find a number of other driver frameworks for old Sun, DEC,
> and other hardware in the source pool.
> 
> 			Hope this helps,
> 					- Jim

In: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers
there are video drivers that use assembler instructions to
write to video hardware directly.

Would there be any performance loss if all video accesses were
done through device files such as eg: /dev/video0 ?