Graphics Driver Frameworks and Security

[Alan Coopersmith]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> 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?   (And lots of kernels applies to the many versions of Linux
>> too.  Xorg runs on top of many different versions of the Linux kernel
>> without having to worry about the in-kernel interface changes between
>> them.)
> 
> Does DRI/DRM exist in your part of the world?

Not yet, but we're working on it.   Solaris isn't the last Xorg-supported
OS without DRI/DRM support though, so even once we're there, others will
not be.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering