From: Aaron Van Couwenberghe <vanco@sonic.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:03:28 -0700

Re: Question about mesa 3.1

On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:18:11PM -0700, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
[snip]
> 	It worked the last time I checked.  Mesa's CVS has been FUBARed 
> along with the rest of openprojects.net for the last few weeks though, so 
> I have not built it recently.

OK... that settles it! as soon as I can get access to a recent source tree
I'll build some new packages.

[snip]
> what you mean.  GGIMesa's KGI target is being designed to handle command
> FIFOs generically, regardless of whether the FIFO back-end is ioctls,
> ping-pong buffers, direct access to a hardware FIFO, KGI 0.9 FIFOs, etc.

So, yes, GGIMesa will be accelerated under KGI. That was my real question,
sorry ;)

One more question. Has Uwe's API been changed at all?

> P.S. It turns out that my legal worries about Uwe's code in GGIMesa may 
> have been unfounded - it is all LGPL, so as long as ggimesa.c and 
> ggiglut.c are compiled into seaparate .o files and only linked to the 
> rest of Mesa and GLUT respectively, it should all be OK right?  I hope so 
> - I'd really like to see you be able to update the .debs....

That's great! I was just under the impression that his code was relicensed
without his authorization. Maybe I misunderstood? Or maybe this was never
really done?

-Aaron

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