Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:17 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 11:43 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > But nooooo.  Gotta keep having VTs so we can recover when X screws up.
> > I mean, it's the unix way.  Which apparently means designing failure in
> > from the start, and calling it a feature.
> > 
> > This is a bad design.  The panic button doesn't make it better, it just
> > makes it okay to be even worse than the design requires.  Take the
> > training wheels off already.
> 
> Do you have an alternative suggestion?

KMS.  Move the setup and command submission bits of the driver into the
kernel, so the kernel always has the wherewithal to kick the X server
off the hardware.  Run a new minimal display server on that, that isn't
X, but that can host a nested X server.  Audit the display server and
kernel driver for correctness, which is now tractable since they're
small and in the right places.  Emulate VTs under this display server,
and eviscerate most of the rest from the kernel.

- ajax


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