From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : Brian S. Julin <bri@tull.umassp.edu>
  Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:18:27 -0700 (PDT)

Re: KGIcon 0.9 pre-alpha released

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Brian S. Julin wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > > This should even allow to link all subdrivers statically and do the binding
> > > with /proc... I have to think about this in detail.
> > 
> > 	Yes, we need to plan this out.  In fact the binding probably _will_
> > be static for the first Savage4 KGI driver beta. 
> 
> It's very encouraging seeing "the grand scheme" coalesce again, especially when
> it's our two best kernel hackers talking.  :)  Unfortunately, I've lost my 
> notes from when I was trying to do this using evstacks.  Never got far, but I 
> wish I could find the file that described the interface I was striving towards.
> 
> One of the best features of this idea (IMO) was that you could potentially 
> throw more than one monitor driver into the fray for PCs that switch monitors
> regularly, such that you could make your apps only use modes that work
> on all monitors.

	Yes, this would be easily doable.

> This also ties in sweetly with adding sprite/BOB/texture support to 
> libGGI (or an extension thereof).  Maybe Marcus and Andy could prioritize
> banging out the specs for this so that after I get done moving an
> obscene amount of large heavy objects into, out of, and around my apartment I
> can tear into it?

	I don't see the connection.  Won't all the sprite/bob stuff be in 
userspace, unless the hardware supports them (Amiga, SVGA HW cursors, 
etc)?

> --
> Brian S. Julin
> "I love it when a plan comes together."
>        -- That white haired boss-type-guy on the A-Team, whetever his name was.

	John "Hannibal" Smith.

Jon

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