Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu May 25 2006 - 13:47:58 EST


On Iau, 2006-05-25 at 16:57 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Why is everyone so keen on keeping the video drivers crippled, but no
> one says "ACPI should be done from user space with user mode helpers"?

Lots of people said that, and tried and it turns out you really can't
get ACPI to fly in user space without major major hackery.

Alan

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