From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:12:08 +0200 (CEST)

Re: Last kgicon update before it goes in CVS

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Isaac Connor wrote:
> > Watch out for my enhanced ATI Mach64 frame buffer device. I'm making progress.
> > There's still something wrong with the sync offsets, it looks like I divide by
> > 8 one time too much somewhere.
> > 
> > If I'm correct, there's no KGI driver for ATI yet?
> 
> I, along with Simon Hammet and others (Simon is the maintainer) are
> working on it.  I don't seem to be able to wrap my head around the more
> significant guts of card programming, but I've written a nice system for
> handling multi-mach64 detection and use. 
> 
> No, there is no working driver for mach64's yet for ggi.  I think we need
> some dedicated time put in by somebody who knows how to do it.  THat's not
> me unfortunately.  And Simon seems to have no time to work on it.
> 
> BTW I am loking forward to using your mach64 driver on ia32 fbcon...
> 
> I've been looking at your code as an example implementation.  It's nice
> and straightforward...

That's the old atyfb which knows about a few MacOS modes only. I based it on
the old PowerMac console driver. Recently I rewrote it complete, and you should
be able to see the code RSN.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium