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From: Frank W. Miller <fwmiller@cs.umd.edu>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 17:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
Re: here we go...
> Well, I think you should have a look at Jon M. Taylor's kgicon wrapper,
> which will make the KGI drivers work on the stock 2.1.x Linux kernel
Great. Where is it?
> you can generate .config by hand and work with it until you have a
> working port; you should be set for a little while.. :)
>
This is what I'll do for now. I can clean up the config stuff later
when (and if) this stuff gets folded into the tree.
> Note that you should use the Dali drivers with kgicon small changes
> (see Jon's earlier post) with kgicon as a basis of work, not EvStack,
> as the drivers are going kgicon's way.. If you want to stay up to
> date with their development .. :)
>
I do, do some extent. I'm basically interested in the video drivers for
the moment. I have my own keyboard driver I can use. I don't know
yet. It would be nice to use your I/O for interactive stuff I guess.
I suspect that making the event driven stuff work will probably be the
most difficult thing for me. My synchronous and asynchronous event are
very real-time oriented and therefore much different than what you see
in Linux.
> No, actually we aren't THAT dirty :) You just need to edit
> include/kgi/system.h
Thank goodness. This actually makes my whole day.
> Roadrunner and you're set. A small glitch though, the drivers use the linux
> pci lookup functions as somehow noone bothered to wrap them in system.h
I can prolly get around this. I use pci stuff from BSD for the DEC tulip
driver.
> The best bet is to write, in that order, the relevant defines in kgi/system.h,
> then
> a "kernel driver" (like the linux/i386.c one) like roadrunner/i386.c or so :),
> then
> finally code in your kernel that encapsulates the KGI drivers, like kgicon
I'm on it. Guess I only need to know about this kgicon thing.
BTW, just saw the article in Dobbs, very kewl!!
Later,
FM
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Frank W. Miller Department of Computer Science
fwmiller@cs.umd.edu University of Maryland
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fwmiller College Park, Maryland 20742
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