From: Steffen Seeger <seeger@physik.tu-chemnitz.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:44:01 +0200 (MEST)

Re: kgicon, etc

> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Steffen Seeger wrote:
> 
> >  
> > > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Emmanuel Marty wrote:
> > > >...
> > > > Well, it is summer, so half of the core developers are away in v
> > > > This said, I'd love to hear from Stefan Mars, Jim Ursetto, Teunis Peters,
> > > > Matthias Grimrath .. :) Now that KGI drivers have high odds to fold into
> > > > the kernel, that'd be a good time to work on them uh ;)
> > > 
> > >  Do you mean that we are now ALLOWED to port our dali drivers to
> > > degas ?? I mean: I asked for that two or three times and was always
> > > told to wait... So ? There is difference between kgicon (ie: kgi
> > > on fbdev) and degas or... is there a graphics driver guide that I
> > > did not see ?
> > > 
> > > Rodolphe, still wanting to have its 546x onscreen.
> > 
> > The driver model is still under Dali, and if I got it right, the
> > kgicon code assumes a dali driver, but just adds another system layer.
> > At least that was what it should do, doesn't it?
> 
> 	It just replaces drivers/kernel/i386.c with fbcon-kgi.c.  It also
> makes a few naming changes, and the kernel part of KGI (consoles and input
> drivers) have been removed.  I am assuming that when your new KGI is
> operational, we will somehow merge kgicon and KGI-Degas.  Should be
> interesting....

Thatīs fine with me. If īportingī means some namespace fixes, but doesnīt
change the underlying driver architecture, itīs fine with me. Well done.

> > The Dali->Degas transition will start when we have a operational
> > 'native' KGI system again, with the new /dev/graphics code.
> > I am currently adding backward compatibility, so that it doesn't break
> > the XFree servers as long as no driver is loaded.
> > 
> > Meanwhile you can port your drivers to whatever you like :-), but the
> > big change for the drivers is still coming.
> 
> 	The kgicon drivers are just Dali drivers with a few tiny
> modifications.  "Porting" should be trivial.  I used Dali drivers because
> they already worked and I needed a working base to build fbcon-kgi on top
> of.  Wait until Steffen is done with Degas/KGI and kgicon has been merged
> with it to do any further porting.

You are absolutely right. But if you like, just īportī the driver to kgicon.
I would give us more experiences, I think.

> Jon
> ---
> 'Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step in 
> becoming one with God.'
> 	- Scientist G. Richard Seed

			Steffen

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