[Info-vax] Windows X server?

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Mon Sep 18 12:16:10 EDT 2023


On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 17:04 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > It should be straightforward to port the existing X11 driver for
> > Virtualbox or VMware to OpenVMS. The x86 driver already exists for
> > Linux.
> 
> Uh? How did you come to the conclusion that some driver from Linux
> would be straight forward to port to VMS? There aren't exactly much 
> commonality between the internals in Linux and VMS...

The driver model in VMS may be very different to what is expected in
Linux but the basics of controlling the device itself does't change.
Likewise for X11. 

Hopefully VSI has documentation on implementing drivers in x86_64 on
their website, I would definitely take a look. 
-- 
Tactical Nuclear Kittens




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