Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Aug 2005 12:40 UTC, submitted by zam001
"After discussing this with several people I have decided to stop working on EGL and Xgl. The recent work on EXA is going to have the side effect of pushing out any hope for an Xgl release by a year or more. By extending the 2D drivers to accelerate composite end user demand for Xgl will also be reduced. I can not justify devoting further time to this project without reasonable hope of it reaching completion."
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moving the graphic driver to the kernel is a bad thing, here is why :
X11 is not Linux only. Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Irix, whatever-Unix driver models aren't compatible.
Okay I didn't anything about X11 being only Linux. I myself use FreeBSD, and have used KGI and X11 on FreeBSD.
So, only the OS specific part should go in the kernel.
+ of course the minimal : to support console and mode setting
That is basiscly what the KGI project is trying to provide while also maintaining security and stability. Currently KGI-0.9 is running on older releases of FreeBSD-5 and Linux. Whatever the operating system, it implements the KGI Application Programing Interface(API), and then video vendors design and produce kernel modules using the KGI API for there hardware.
Unfortunately the KGI project lacks developers.....you know how it goes.