On 2 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Since XFree 4.0 you don't have to touch the core code, you
> don't have to duplicate a ton of stuff and you don't need
> to know zip about DDX, MI and the other core layers.
Yeah, I don't think regular X is problematic. The Xv stuff used to be
quite messy, but even that seems simpler these days (although I also
haven't had any real reason to worry about it any more, so maybe I just
_think_ it's cleaner these days).
The lack of commit rights to the X tree might be a problem for some, but I
don't think regular 2D X has anywhere _near_ the kind of lack of people
and time that DRI ends up having.
Partly because the problem set is simpler, I'm sure. But also largely
because the abstraction issues _have_ been worked on for a long time and
it's just easier to do a driver these days as a result.
Linus
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