From e539ff53516e147787411fb947c6223e014ca12d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:43:41 +0200 Subject: short descriptions of the architectures and lists of implementations MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- doc/info/mds.texinfo | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index 8bb62dd..f5e2c73 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -5079,12 +5079,30 @@ Right @kbd{super} key @chapter Discussion This chapter aims to enumerate advantages and -disavantages with micro-display servers and -traditional monolithic display servers. Please -chime in with any insight. +disavantages with micro-display servers, +traditional monolithic display servers and +other possible designs. Please chime in with +any insight. +@menu +* The Microserver Architecture:: The Microserver Architecture. +* The Monolithic Server Architecture:: The Monolithic Server Architecture. +@end menu + + + +@node The Microserver Architecture +@section The Microserver Architecture + +Description: The display server is implement with +multiple binaries that speak with each other using +a well defined protocol. -@b{Advantages of the microserver architecture:} +@noindent +Implementations: mds. + +@noindent +Advantages: @itemize @bullet{} @item @@ -5136,7 +5154,18 @@ part of the display server where it is required. @end itemize -@b{Advantages of the monolithic server architecture:} + +@node The Monolithic Server Architecture +@section The Monolithic Server Architecture + +Description: The display server is implemented +as one binary. + +@noindent +Implementations: X11, Mir, Wayland. + +@noindent +Advantages: @itemize @bullet{} @item -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2