From: Jan Kneschke <Jan.Kneschke@kiel.netsurf.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:07:46 +0200 (MEST)

Re: Multiple boards.

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Johan Karlberg wrote:

> 
> 
> 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?
yes. hercules and STB have released cards based on the savage last month.
the average is at 260DM (150USD). the speed is between riva 128 and voodoo 2


thats all
  Jan

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