From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:37:53 -0700 (PDT)

Re: degas KGI - what's the status?

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Matthias Grimrath wrote:

> Is GGI still going to have their own KGI drivers?  Or did we agree to
> drop making hardware drivers and instead focus in libGGI?

	No, we are still making drivers.  But now we are using the kgicon
system, which lets us use KGI drivers as fbcon drivers. 

> Last thing I heart is that Steffen Seeger is designing the new KGI
> API, but he has been quiet for some time. (BTW, does anyone know why?)

	No idea.

> It's just that I have some spare time now, having ideas how to make a
> new KGI API but I don't dare to start unless there is some
> clarification.

	It is unlikely that we will go back to using KGI (= a replacement
for fbdev) before Degas is released, since we can do acceleration with
kgicon and the fbdev target. 
 
> Or is it just missing motivation? :-)

	We have more motivation now than in quite some time, IMHO.  A lot
of real progress has been made over the last several months.  But
fbcon/fbdev is the standard Linux framebuffer device system and
framebuffer console, and we have to work with it for now.  It is actually
quite useable, although there are KGI features that I miss.  But KGI is
definitely on the back burner right now. 

Jon
 

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