On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 4:51 AM Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> 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.