From: Johan Karlberg <wlfshmn@failure.ml.org>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 00:53:41 +0200 (CEST)

Re: Multiple boards.

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Jan Kneschke wrote:

> 
> 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 ...
> 
I own a few Trio64v+ cards, I belive they are quite the same as the v2,
but I'm no expert on S3 by far.

> has someone already had a look at the s3-savage3d ?? 

Are these released yet?

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