[directfb-dev] Re: Fusion patch

[Chad Hardin <cehardin@mac.com>]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 3:10 AM, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:

> Quoting Chad Hardin:
> > Just curious, has anybody tied to get fusion into the vanilla kernel?
> > If so, can the author do this?
> I want to finish the documentation first and make sure that future
> versions will be binary compatible.

Well, that is indeed a good idea!  :-)  I get the impression that 
getting a patch into the kernel is hard enough, no need to make it more 
difficult.

> > If fusion is not accepted into the vanilla kernel, it would be helpful
> > to me if the author could try to get the fusion patch into the 
> > packaged
> > debian kernel.
> This would be cool, too. There should be a libdirectfb-multi package 
> then.
Would there have to be?  Couldn't the libdirectfb0 deb use multi by 
default?  I was under the impression that a directFB app doesn't need 
to care if it's using a --enable-multi version of the library?
I think that the fusion patch would have to be standard for all Debian 
kernels though if that was the case.  If only one directfb app is 
launched, what happens if a multi-app enabled libdirectfb can't find 
the character device for fusion?

I'm really interested in your experiences in trying to get the patch 
into the Debian kernel.


> > The reason is that I'm working on a GNUstep OS distro which will use
> > DirectFB by default.  It is basically a Debian system with lot's of
> > extra packages.
> Cool, I once checked it out, but didn't have 20GB to build it.
Hehe, those days are gone.  It's Debian Sarge based now.  I was pretty 
stupid for trying to start a distro from scratch when Debian Sarge was 
right there waiting....

Thanks!

Chad

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