Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@ibi.uw.edu.pl>]

> The TRAP API (like any other TOS system call) is very inefficient, and the 
> VDI/AES is probably the worst. A new API, directly from the user programs to 
> the VDI implementation would be far better, there is no doubt.
>
> But why the VDI would have to be a kernel module ? Most of its work is to 
> draw in the video memory, there is no need to switch to supervisor mode and 
> play with the hardware or kernel internals to do that...

Heh.

Everything needs to be a "kernel module" because a kernel module sounds cool, 
and besides it runs in "supermode", which sounds even more cool.

Once, before XaAES became the kernel module, I tried to convince the list that 
implementing the AES as user-space libraries would be better. I haven't been 
even understood: I wrote "user-space libraries", and the readers read something 
like "client-server architecture" - consequently I got replies completely 
irrelevant to my suggestion (such as "client-server architecture is 
inefficient" or "it was implemented in XaAES before[1]" etc.)

[1] there was an API in a version of XaAES which used MiNT pipes to transfer 
messages between the app and the XaAES core, or something like that.

Pozdrawiam
KMK