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From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:15:18 -0700 (PDT)
Re: a FAQ... been away for a while...
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> On 30 Jul 1998, Jason McMullan wrote:
> > Well, most of the real-life problems have cleared up and I am
> > busy porting teh GGI Console (aka EvStacks) to the PowerPC
> > architecture. I should have something by the end of August.
>
> Woohoo! Anyone working on a SPARC port? :-)
GGI Console should be architecture-neutral, shouldn't it? fbcon
is, AFAIK. IIRC the scroller class should call out to the lower-level
framebuffer device handler (either KGI or fbdev). Even those layers would
be arch-neutral as well - only the drivers themselves would be
arch-specific. That is the way it is done now with fbcon - the sbus cgsix
fbcon driver is sitting in drivers/video along with Open Firmware (mac
PPC) drivers, Amiga drivers, Atari drivers, x86 drivers and abstract
drivers like the VESA and virtual-FB drivers. I imagine the situation
would be the same for input devices, printers, or any other type of IO
device that the console might need to use.
Jon
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