Graphics Driver Frameworks and Security

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 12:26 +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote: 
> 
> Also, as I already pointed out, there are people willing to do this
> work, or at least there used to be -- most are scattered now, due to the
> continued missing acceptance. The former KGI attempts did *not* fail
> because of lack of people to do the work, but because of lack of
> interest in the work they did.

I'm not buying that. What stopped them from making a proof-of-concept
implementation? That makes it so much easier to convince others.


> Showing code first and hoping it will be adopted, failed miserably for
> KGI. That's why I'm trying the opposite way now: Unless we can expect at
> least some support among X developers, there is no point in even
> starting to write more code. And the nearly zero resonance my previous
> posting(s) on that topic received, isn't exactly encouraging :-(

I don't understand what kind of support you're looking for. Don't pull a
Jon Smirl and expect everybody to suddenly drop what they're doing and
focus exclusively on something radically new. ;) Just keep doing what
you think is right, and once this Xggi or whatever shows the advantages
you seem so firmly convinced it will, more people will surely jump on.
The XDirectFB folks appear to be on a pretty good way, e.g.


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