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From: Nigel Roles <nigel@9fs.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Generic Plan 9 to Linux video api shim.
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:04:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <414EF175.8050508@9fs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF33BDD576.DDF84CA0-ON85256F15.004E0974@csc.com>

Caerwyn B Jones wrote:

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>>I believe my friend was refering along the lines of creating an
>>abstraction layer that would allow for linux graphic drivers to be
>>used with Plan 9. I could be mistaken.
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>This has already been done for Inferno. The "shim" is called Linux ;)
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Quite. VMware is another example.




  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-20 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 14:16 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-09-20 15:04 ` Nigel Roles [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-20 11:30 Vester Thacker
2004-09-20 13:01 ` Nigel Roles
2004-09-20 13:45   ` Vester Thacker
2004-09-20 14:03     ` Nigel Roles

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