From: Tristan Wibberley <bloater@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:11:53 +0000

Re: Linus on linuxworld

On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 08:17:27PM -0700, Sengan Baring-Gould wrote:
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-03/lw-03-opensources.html
> 
> Rule number 1 for keeping the kernel healthy: avoid new system interfaces.
> Once you give an interface to users they will start coding to it and once
> somebody starts coding to it you are stuck with it. Do you want to support
> the exact same interface for the rest of your system's life?
> 
> Given that graphics evolves very quickly, isn't the above actually rather
> hard
> to achieve beyond a framebuffer?

Yes, which is why you only specify framebuffer and console operations -
the rest you leave to the driver writers for themselves. Just give them a
way to export their own interface.

This is why a KGI/GGI combination is so good.

--
Tristan Wibberley