8 Mar
2023
8 Mar
'23
7:05 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 4:51 AM Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
It is then surprising that Linux did not come up with
/dev/fbdev until
1999, especially in view of the importance of X to the early Linux
developers. Maybe the reason was that the headache of video drivers was
delegated to the XFree community.
Mapping /dev/mem was good enough for SVGA cards. No surprise there: just be
lazy.
Warner