From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:06:54 -0700 (PDT)

Re: LibGGI3D RFC

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Torgeir Veimo wrote:

> 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.

	Fine by me.  Probably better, actually.  But fbdev has no such
capabilities and we don't have the KGI framework anymore with kgicon.  So
the command ioctl handling would have to be done in fbcon-kgi.c. 

Jon

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