From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 13:19:45 +0000

Re: XGGI

Bryan Patrick Coleman wrote:
> 
> I was just wizzing through my mail an got a little delete happy. But I
> could swear I read something about Xfree86 4.0 being so good that XGGI
> might get dropped.

This is probably the message you meant:

Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > XFree86 4.0 sounds like it will be VERY cool!  In fact, it
> > will be cool enough that we may want to shelve XGGI in favor of XFree86
> > 4.0 with a LibGGI driver module.  They are pretty far ahead of us on the
> > development curve here, especially WRT GLX.  But XFree86 4.0 will not be
> > released for ~4 months, so we have some time to plan things out first.
> 
> Dumping the current XGGI implementation has been my plan since
> I took over maintaining it.  It's way too complicated to plug
> acceleration into it (~120 lines to plug in a common operation like
> copybox...), and the XGGI server is larger than the XF86_SVGA
> server even though the latter supports a whole bunch of different
> chipsets with more or less acceleration.

//Marcus
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