From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:44:11 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Accelleration: A summary

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Torgeir Veimo wrote:

> "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
> [...]".

	Well, I certainly hope that isn't it, because all it does is map 
the registers directly into userspace.

Jon

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