On Saturday 01 November 2003 17:28, Orna Agmon wrote: > Hello Linuxers, > > Consider a lecture regarding: > > The Design and Implementation of X > > > I find the subject very interesting. > > The only question is: Who can (and wishes to) talk about this > subject? >
I have once ported an XFree86 to a new architecture (SGI's SN2-IA64, a.k.a Altix). This was a rather challenging experience considering the card in question used an AGP bus to communicate with the host memory and the following facts: a. The Altix doesn't have an AGP port. b. Being that the Altix is a ccNUMA beast, the definition of "host's memory" becomes, well... interesting :-) Strangely enough though, most of my time was spent fixing 64bit-ness related errors in X 2D handling code and the vsw5 test suite. This means I know something about the varied and mangled ways X talks to hardware and how an application request is translated to dots on the screens but I can't program an Xlib Hello World! application to save my life and overall I know a hell of a lot less about X then what the previous sentence might make one think ;-) Nevertheless, If you consider this ample experience to give such a talk, I'll gladly do one if no one better qualified steps up. Cheers, Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
