On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 09:57:12PM +0000, Henrique Lengler wrote: > Reviving this old thread: > > This is the only thread I found talking about have something like rio on Linux > > After read Rob Pike documents about rio, and window systems in general, I got > very interested in it. > He talks about how window systems can be less complicated, and he describe a > very interesting design of one. This design is used in rio. > So I'm thinking how something like this be implemented in a normal Linux or > BSD. > The three documents that have their links on the footer, have a lot of > information about this design, that I found very interesting. > > If the author of the first post continue interested or already did some work, > I > would like to know. > > What do you guys think? > > The documents: > http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/concurrent_window_system/concurrent_window_system.pdf > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/3rd_edition/rio/rio_slides.pdf > http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/transparent_wsys/transparent_wsys.pdf > > Regards, > -- > Henrique Lengler
I'm studying the linux kernel, and looks like framebuffer is very close to the rio design. I think about a application to manage the acess to it, like a graphics multiplexer. Regards, -- Henrique Lengler
