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+Egbert Eich is a long time X developer, SuSE X maintainer, and X.org board member. He also managed the X.org 6.7.0 release. 
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+## Reworking the PCI subsystem in X
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+The PCI subsystem is one of the pieces of X that are in urgent need of renovation. The majority of its code was developed in the early days of PCI and when X mostly supported x86 systems. Since then numerous systems with additional requirements have been introduced and the support provided by the operating systems has been greatly enhanced. 
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+Therefore it is time to redesign this entire subsystem. Some ideas behind this redesign are presented here. 
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+The talk was renamed to: 
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+## Renovating DDX
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+The X.Org DDX has met its limits. A lot of functionality it provides is not required by most operating systems any more today. It imposes limits and restricitions of hardware of the mid-90's. Furthermore it doesn't provide a lot of infrastructure that is needed for modern hardware. Thus a lot of this is now implemented inside the drivers - and designed in an ad hoc fashion. 
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+The [[Slides|FOSDEM2006EgbertEich.pdf]] of the talk. 
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