On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 4:51 AM Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS 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 >