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  From: Brian Julin <bri@forcade.calyx.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 17:30:46 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Multiple boards.

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Jan Kneschke wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Brian Julin wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Wolf Shaman wrote:
> > 
> > > Should a single driver handle all detected instances of that board?
> > 
> > This would be more efficient yes.  Would be nice too if the S3 driver
> > could be made into a core that can have code linked in from the more
> > primitive S3 based chipsets and handle them all together.
> 
> do you think about a core-driver for trio+vision+virge+(savage) ?? 
> or one core driver for every family ?? 

Whatever makes the most sense and is easiest to maintain.  Strikes
me owners of the more similar cards should pool their resources and
work tightly together -- we even have an IRC channel for fast interaction.

> > Brian S. Julin
> BTW: do own a s3-card ?? why is there just great interest coming from your
> side of the terminal ??

I have an onboard s3 now (X reports it as trio64v2, PCI revision 16).
It's on the PII work gave me to run winblows on since I had only UNIX
boxen at home.   Of course I immediately put Linux on the handy empty 
hda2 the vendor left.  I have a weak interest in using the GGI driver 
on it, but someone screwed up and only got 2M of RAM for the onboard 
controller so I mostly don't do graphics on it.

Other than that, none, I'm just a neat freak that's all.  Once
I get kgicon actually working I'll be making the WD drivers bundle
into one binary along with a STD VGA, so I should have a decent sample
multi-adaptor driver after that.

(BTW I just picked up a couple wd90c24 laptops in addition to my
real laptop; they were real cheap w/o power adaptor or battery.
One is dual scan and one Active so I have a good WD laptop test base
now. :)

Also if anyone is looking to get _older_ cards close to one they wrote a driver
for to do compatibility testing, e-mail me in private, I've got very freindly
connections with a used computer store (and a few MDA cards and monitors 
to get rid of free as I've mentioned before, but postage ends up making
that prohibitive except in the Eastern US.  Note you need a free
ISA slot for that, as one developer here who will remain unnamed 
was disappointed to realize after he received it :)

--
Brian S. Julin

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