Graphics Driver Frameworks and Security

[olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net]

Hi,

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:23:08AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> And all the other OS'es that use Xorg on a non-Linux kernel can go
> jump in a lake?   Xorg runs on lots of hardware on lots of kernels
> today - how many would it run on if all the drivers had to be kernel
> specific?

KGI needs a kernel-specific layer, but the actual hardware-specific
device drivers are portable.

Note that for *part* of the driver functionality, this mechanisms
already exists today in the form of DRM.

And it really isn't a problem to have a fallback to the old way of doing
things, for systems that don't implement KGI.

-antrik-