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From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
Re: TNT2 / KGI questions
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Michael Gersten wrote:
> So KGI is the spec for the driver; the API (KM-PI: kernel module programming
> interface), while KGIcon is the mapping between what linux's fbcon
> expects and what the KGI driver actually provides.
>
> Right?
Correct. KGIcon only implements the video driver API portion of KGI,
while the full KGI also contains KII (input devices), a new console subsystem
and a few extra additions to the kernel like userspace page fault handlers
and some memory management tweaks.
Jon
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