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While developing some application, did you ever feel that your SDK is lacking some feature which would make your app development much easier? So think the vide

by achat 13y ago

While developing some application, did you ever feel that your SDK is lacking some feature which would make your app development much easier? So think the video driver as library and the windowing system as an application using video driver library.

lelandbatey 13y ago
Yep. However, if you're trying to replicate something that's already built on top of an existing piece of software using the existing API's, I'd assume you wouldn't have to patch the platform just to build on top of it. However, as tinco explained[0], it seems that there is no "standard graphics api" for linux, and the "link" between window servers and graphics drivers is hard coded. So you do in fact have to patch the video driver to provide support for a new window server (on Linux at least).