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  From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 09:57:27 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Gearing up for yet another GGI war at linux-kernel

> > Hey guys cheer up. The truth is something is GGI console is going into
> > 2.3. Vojtech input is GGI console without the console handling code. Thats
> > where I come in. I will be working on the new console code for 2.3.x this
> > weekend. I presented it to Matrin Mares and he was impressed with my code
> > and wants to see my final results. So it looks good.
> 
> Suuuper! Go on! This is the first _great_ step for "GGI/KGI into the
> kernel" ! I want to see and test your code! Feel free to send it to me!

Well its not quit GGI console. Instead of a tree structure you have a a
double link list to repesent devices that are effected by a "VT switch". 
This way devices like /dev/dsp and /dev/fb can also be aware of "VT
switches". For multihead systems each real head is a active head. When you
do a VT switch it saves the current state of each device and marks the
head as inactive. Then it creates a new head and marks that one active.
 
> Is anyone here to add his code to the ggi-snapshots?

Well the plan is this code will become part of 2.3.x. So all you will need
is 2.3.x kernel.


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