From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:26:32 -0700 (PDT)

Re: ioctl()s now work with kgicon

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I finally got kgicon working again on my system by doing some
> PSBRA (Problem Solving By Random Actions - it means you just
> do some stuff that doesn't seem related to the problem, and if
> you're lucky the problem will go away when you're done ;-)
> 
> And with this problem finally solved I've now added support for
> passing KGI ioctls through kgicon. I've attached a small
> testprogram that I've used to test it. Now I only have to learn
> how to set up mmap()s and then I'll take a shot at getting the
> accel ioctl()s to work.

	Killer!  Virge 3D accel, here we come! 

> Btw, the dali KGI system would win the obfuscated C contest
> anytime. 

	Hehehe |->.

> Why does one do things like this:
> #define	VM(x)			(vma->vm_ ## x)
> ???
> Sure the author had to do one percent fewer keypresses, but it
> makes the code higly unreadable!

	Steffen did a lot of that.  He seems to love using the
preprocessor for everything he can |->.

Jon

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