From: Jan Kneschke <Jan.Kneschke@kiel.netsurf.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:17:47 +0200 (MEST)

Re: Multiple boards.

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Brian Julin wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Wolf Shaman wrote:
> 
> > Should a single driver handle all detected instances of that board?
> 
> This would be more efficient yes.  Would be nice too if the S3 driver
> could be made into a core that can have code linked in from the more
> primitive S3 based chipsets and handle them all together.

do you think about a core-driver for trio+vision+virge+(savage) ?? 
or one core driver for every family ?? 
the biggest parts of every driver are init and mode-setting. And both part
are slightly different between vision and virge. virge and trio are quite
similar. since i have docs for vision, virge and trio and own a virge/gx and
a vision986 i'll have a look when degas-kgi comes.

just some pre-information-catching:

are the following chipset-maintainer correct ??
#define MAINTAINER      Jochen_Hoenicke
#define DRIVER_NAME     "S3 86c928 chipset driver"
#define MAINTAINER      Jon_Taylor
#define DRIVER_NAME     "S3 86c765 (Trio64) chipset driver"
#define MAINTAINER      Stefan_Mars				<< teunis ??
#define DRIVER_NAME     "S3 ViRGE family chipset driver"
#define MAINTAINER      Jan_Kneschke				<< YES :)
#define DRIVER_NAME     "S3 86c964/86c968 chipset driver"
#define MAINTAINER      ???
#define DRIVER_NAME     "S3 86c864/86c868 chipset driver"

is the trio64v+ == trio64v2 ?? 

i've never seen a trio64v+ (for which i have the docs for), but you can buy
a trio64v2-card for 70DM everywhere ...

has someone already had a look at the s3-savage3d ?? 
 
> Brian S. Julin
BTW: do own a s3-card ?? why is there just great interest coming from your
side of the terminal ??

thats all
  Jan

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       Project: GGI - S3-Vision-driver -- http://www.ggi-project.org/
         -)=  Jan (Weigon) Kneschke -- Kiel -- Northern Germany =(-