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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> 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.... 
>
> There's no real difference I'm aware of between Xsun & Xorg there.
>
I think the old Sun style drivers had separate configuration utilities 
-- of course these days fbconfig has eliminated the need for users to 
know that.  And you're right, its not an Xsun vs. Xorg, but more "new 
style" versus "old style" Sun framebuffer thing.

    -- Garrett