Kernel support for graphics cards

[olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net]

Hi,

> > Why not? Kernels have drivers for every other piece for hardware, so what's
> > stopping them from having gfx drivers?
> 
> size r200_dri.so
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 1827062   78784  145808 2051654  1f4e46 r200_dri.so
> 
> There is an OpenGL driver from the DRI project, you think we'd be
> putting that in the kernel?

Seriously, did anyone, ever, actually propose that?

There seems to be a lot of confusion around this matter. Most people for
example seem to believe that GGI/KGI wanted to do this, which is simply
wrong. While the kernel component has become even more minimal over the
years, it was *never* intended to put complete graphics drivers, with
abstract operations and 3D and everything, into the kernel.

I wonder what makes people believe that. Maybe it's the name.

-antrik-