Later on, I'd changed my mind: it would probably be more challenging but in the end more satisfying and universal to make a kernel frame buffer driver. This way, when I would plug in the GPU, the kernel would recognize it and create a framebuffer device. A framebuffer device is an abstract representation of a graphic card plus display, and there are a lot of programs which can talk to that: MPlayer, image viewing tools and even X.org. Getting X.org running on the device made things much simpler: any program I would want to run, including webbrowsers and Macintosh emulators, could run on top of that without any modifications to the programs themselves. So I took to work, and the result was nice to look at: Firefox, running on my workstation, could render itself to a second X session and into the classic CRT of the Mac.

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