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History of graphics backends on Linux system
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Video Graphics Library (vgl) - Backend for FreeBSD #2

Closed osen closed 4 years ago

osen commented 4 years ago

Hi there,

Your project seems really interesting and is as close to a "digital preservation" Linux distro as I have found so far.

Not quite Linux but FreeBSD has semi-recently moved to kernel modesetting and as such replaced its old syscons (sc) console driver with newcons (vt). In doing so they had to remove support for VGL.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?vgl

As you can see by the API documented in this manpage, vgl isn't very large. Does your project have any interest in perhaps creating a compatibility wrapper around this? There are relatively few graphics backends for UNIX-like and as far as I have seen, vgl is fairly nice.

This isn't an "issue" as such, it might just be something cool to consider if it is of interest to you.

caramelli commented 4 years ago

Yes, a compatibility wrapper should work. But I am only focusing on GNU/Linux systems, especially for use on embedded systems.

Nicolas Caramelli

Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 16:10, osen notifications@github.com a écrit :

Hi there,

You project seems really interesting and is as close to a "digital preservation" Linux distro as I have found so far.

Not quite Linux but FreeBSD has semi-recently moved to kernel modesetting and as such replaced its old syscons (sc) console driver with newcons (vt). In doing so they had to remove support for VGL.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?vgl

As you can see by the API documented in this manpage, vgl isn't very large. Does your project have any interest in perhaps creating a compatibility wrapper around this? There are relatively few backends for UNIX-like and as far as I have seen, vgl is fairly nice.

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osen commented 4 years ago

Yes, this would be entirely for Linux since I don't even think FreeBSD provides a replacement backend for VGL to be wrapped upon (possibly only xorg/X11 remains). Basically it would help in porting FreeBSD vgl based programs to Linux.

That said... I actually don't know of any VGL based software (other than my own hobbiest stuff) that exists to port! I think there was a Quake port once but Linux already has many ports of that!

Anyway, I will close this issue :)