From: James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:48:08 -0400 (EDT)

Re: 3d

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> > I like to see library independent accelleration. Threw ioctl not special
> > library stubs. 
> 
> Besides the fact that ioctl()s are not exactly the fastest way to
> communicate with a GFX accelerator, having a generic ioctl() API
> for 3D acceleration would bloat the kernel way to much without
> gaining anything compared to having a small HW driver in the
> kernel and a library to interface it.

Yes but fb doesn't have a accel buffer like /dev/graphics.

If you do good code this bloat can be very small.