From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:03:34 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Accelleration: A summary

> > 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.

You forget that SGI. You can do that with their hardware. Now as for the
driver being properly virtualized its not.