From: Torgeir Veimo <torgeir.veimo@vertech.no>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 00:46:28 +0200

Re: Accelleration: A summary

"Jon M. Taylor" wrote:
> 
>         When /dev/gfx arrives on the scene it will probably be easy to
> hook it to the PP buffers.  I imagine that the SGI /dev/gfx uses something
> similar internally, after all - didn't we get the idea from Linas Vepstas
> way back when, and IIRC he has worked on IRIX.  Hm, SGI has donated a lot
> of IRIX code to Linux recently - why can't they donate their /dev/gfx code
> too?

Much of this code is allready in place in the SGI Linux port, but I
don't think it is from IRIX, but written from scratch by Miguel Icaza
and others. I believe they have the native IRIX X server running on top
of the kernel interface without recompiling the X server. Did you look
at www.linux.sgi.com? Check the FAQ entry or the status page, especially
"Sep 21, 1997: Miguel Manages to get Xsgi running on top of SGI/Linux
[...]".

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-Torgeir