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From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:04:29 +0000
Re: KGI(CON) XFree 4.0 Wrapper
Andreas Beck wrote:
>
> > Just downloaded the first snapshot of XFree 4.0. I'm working on a KGI
> > wrapper for it. Why ? This way we get full accelleration for free, nice if
> > you got a Riva TNT :) I guess NVidia will provide an XFree server, but no
> > KGI driver...
>
> This is great. I had proposed such a scheme ever since we designed KGI, but
> XF people didn't seem interested. I really hope they have sorted their HAL
> out in XF4.0 now (the last I saw left mode setup to the server which made it
> essentially useless to serve as a KGI-style driver). If that is possible
> now, I'll gladly try to assist you.
>
> Unifying that damned graphics drivers was always a big goal for us. Even if
> it didn't happen the way we would have liked, it will still be nice, if we
> can just load the XF driver module and go graphics with them.
>
> Ask me, if you need any advice. How do you plan to use the drivers ? Like
> the suidkgi target ? Or using a XF->KGI wrapper ?
After a first look XFree modules doesn't exactly seem suitable for a
kernel module. They are up to 170k in size (and will most certainly
grow as more functionality is added), and require >150 external
functions
to be implemented in the wrapper.
//Marcus
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