[TUHS] Origins of the frame buffer device

[Warner Losh]

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

Warner

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