From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 13:53:50 -0700 (PDT)

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.

	The use of .inc files should be deprecated.  The way the Matrox 
drivers do things is much better.  I keep meaning to do this, but somehow 
other things always get in the way.

	What would be *really* nice is if the whole process of KGI driver 
hardware tectection and module-loading could be handled automatically.  
You'd load a tiny skeleton kgicon module, which would probe the hardware 
and build a list of all video cards present.  It would then load a series 
of sub-modules for chipset, ramdac, etc. for each card.  If different 
cards in the same system shared common modules (like S3 fasttext support 
for a Trio64 and ViRGE in the same computer).  Oh well, nice dream....

Jon

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