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From: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:43:25 +0200 (CEST)
Re: KGI(CON) XFree 4.0 Wrapper
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> 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.
I agree with you on this, but the way we are working now, we got many
half-working drivers. The drivers seem not to be maintained at all, except
for the KGI framework and the ViRGE driver which suddenly has a complete
team of developpers !?! The latest real modification in drivers I found
was the addition of the NVidia driver, stolen from XFree. (Sorry if I
missed some good work on other drivers). My main thought (though maybe not
well-explained in my first mail on this topic) was to write a wrapper,
take the sourcecode of the X-drivers and strip this, and release that as
the KGICON drivers. I know it will be big, but fast video costs memory
space. (I'm not saying Win98 is good, but take a look at the amount of
memory Win98 video drivers + DirectX 6 take....)
Jos
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