From: Torgeir Veimo <Torgeir.Veimo@vertech.no>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:05:00 +0000

Re: LibGGI3D RFC

James A Simmons wrote:
> 
> >       Do you know which hardware is safe, and under what circumstances?
> > I don't.  IMHO we should default to slower but safer ioctls and move to
> > MMIO interfaces as safety is determined on a case-by-case basis.
> 
> Agree. Thats why I suggested ioctl in the first place.

One can usually determine what cards can safely do MMIO based on its
design. 

Creating a lot of new ioctl's is kinda bad when it comes to getting
acceptance linux-kernel wise. Rather use a single ioctl with commands
passed in a struct/union.

-- 
-Torgeir