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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid |
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> question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware |
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> Abstraction Layer) to present a reasonably stable interface to binary |
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> video drivers? Think of it as a shim translating a "pseudo-API" into |
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> "the real API" that the kernel exposes directly. Surely, we can do |
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> better than VESA. Give drivers 2 options... |
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> 1) direct kernel access like now |
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> 2) access via the HAL/shim |
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Just read this file and you'll have the answer: |
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/usr/src/linux/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt |
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