Hello all.
Hmm. The SDL Mailing list has suddenly become real quite (or my mail is
really stuffed). So, in response to this, I’ll just post a little
question:
Has anyone heard of this joint project between Intel, Compaq, SCO (and a
few more companies) called “Unified Unix”? I read a brief article on it
at wired.com (forgot the URL), but I’m still confused. Right now, my
current view on it is that its aim is to create a set of “driver
structures” for all unices to share? I’m hoping this will mean more
compatible hardware in Unix and thus allow things like more video card
support in X, better compatibility with a wider range of sound cards and
virtually nearly every other peripheral.
But then again, maybe I’m completely wrong about what I just said (I
have a nack for doing things like that.) ;> Incase I am right, then it
should be clear that SDL must implement support for it (and hopefully
Linux will too).
shrug
Cya,
NoEscape–
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Has anyone heard of this joint project between Intel, Compaq, SCO (and a
few more companies) called “Unified Unix”? I read a brief article on it
at wired.com (forgot the URL), but I’m still confused. Right now, my
current view on it is that its aim is to create a set of “driver
structures” for all unices to share? I’m hoping this will mean more
compatible hardware in Unix and thus allow things like more video card
support in X, better compatibility with a wider range of sound cards and
virtually nearly every other peripheral.
Project UDI. It will benefit people like SCO, who can’t keep up with the new
hardware. Basicly, it is an interpreted language, so hardware vendors can
make binary-only drivers for their hardware. (shudder Implement a Forth
interpreter into an X server???)
This is the last thing that Linux needs, but all of the commercial Unices were
hoping to get a free ride off Linux people writing cross-platform drivers.
(SCO and friends can’t use Linux drivers without GPLing their kernel)
But then again, maybe I’m completely wrong about what I just said (I
have a nack for doing things like that.) ;> Incase I am right, then it
should be clear that SDL must implement support for it (and hopefully
Linux will too).
UDI is way too lowlevel for SDL. SDL basicly uses your X server (or is it
client?) or other high-level graphics librarys to display on your system. It
also uses your operating system’s sound driver to play sound. In short, UDI
is too lowlevel for SDL.
BTW, Sam, have you found out what was causing that segfault yet? It smells
horribly of a race-condition, but that is probably very unlikely with anything
that I coded 
(Whatever the bug is, it is running in a different thread,
and I don’t have any threads stuff in my code…)On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 04:30:28PM +0800, Steven Wong (a.k.a NoEscape) wrote:
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– Michael Samuel