rfb Xorg drivers [PSARC/2008/555 FastTrack timeout 09/05/2008]

[Garrett D'Amore]

Eric Sultan wrote:
> It has been pointed out that VNC uses a remote framebuffer protocol 
> named "rfb", and that the name might therefore not be a good choice 
> for the Xorg-compliant driver for the XVR-50, -100, and -300.
>
> Accordingly, the project team has agreed to use a new name, efb, for 
> this project.

Just out of curiosity, is there any mnemonic for efb?  And, is there any 
compelling reason why only three characters are chosen for the name?  (I 
would have expected that in new-style Xorg that users have little, if 
any, reason to be exposed to the names of the framebuffer drivers.... 
hence a longer and more descriptive -- and perhaps less likely to 
collide -- name seems like it might have been a good choice.)

(No, I'm not asking the project to change their name, just pointing out 
that if they wanted to pick a longer and more descriptive name, that I 
think they *could* have.)

    -- Garrett