From: James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:45:17 -0400 (EDT)

Re: New ggi_graphtype

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, James A Simmons wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:
> 
> > Marcus writes:
> > 
> > >  > I don't think we should have code in
> > >  > every target to detect endianess to set the appropriate subscheme.
> > >  > DirectBuffer uses "native" and "reverse" endian which makes more
> > >  > sense in this case.
> > >  
> > >  Detecting native/reverse endian will require MORE work in
> > >  targets than LSB/MSB. In the first case the target has to know
> > >  the endianess of BOTH the CPU and the gfx hardware. 
> > 
> > Probably (depending on the target, e.g. KGI might handle the endianness
> > itself and export the native/reverse info to LibGGI).
> > 
> > >  With my suggestion it only has to know the endianess of the gfx HW.
> > 
> > The advantage of native/reverse is that it shields *programs* from
> > having to know what endianness they are, and IMHO this is more important
> > than a bit of extra work within LibGGI.
> 
> Should be in the kgi drivers. <ost cards have a special register to deal
> with endianess.
Yes I agree. In fact i can patch Maxtrox millenium card for this. I will
bring the patch tomorrow. 
 
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > _____________________________________________  ____
> >                                                \  /
> >   Andrew Apted   <andrew@ggi-project.org>       \/
> >   
> > 
> > 
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