From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:46:08 -0700 (PDT)

Re: GGI and XFree86 and stuff

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Jos Hulzink wrote:
> > We discussed this before. Trying to see all S3 cards as one big family is
> > not done, for the chips differ far too much, so it would make the code
> > unreadable.
> 
> Not if it is well-written.  I think it can be properly virtualized, and
> that there is enough common elements to make it worthwhile.  
> ViRGE is
> not likely be supported; it is already well-supported and also less like
> other S3 chips.  

	You will not be able to support all the older DACs that the
pre-Trio chipsets used without producing an XFree86-style monolithic
driver.  And ViRGE is not much more than a Trio64 with 3D features. 

> I do have a ViRGE card so I was considering playing
> around with getting 3D GLX going on it.

	Isn't there some old ViRGE code in Mesa?

Jon

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