From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : mailing list GGI <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:58:15 +0100 (MET)

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> Hi !

> > Yeah, but there's not much point in rewriting every graphics driver 
> > twice. For those who don't know, XFree86 4.0 uses driver modules,
> > which means all of the hardware code is nicely encapsulated now.

> Are they ? Last time I looked at XAA (or have they replaced it ?)
> it didn't care about initialization in the modules (the server did),
> only accel. KGI drivers are kind of "the other way round". They 
> primarily care about initialization and mode setup, then about accel.

> > Also, this means XGGI could be replaced by an XFree86 driver module
> > which is just a layer to GGI. 
> 
> Yes. I'd say that would be nice. Volunteers, please !
> 
> > And if you do that, you could do the
> > reverse, making a XFree86 driver interface to GGI, which means any
> > XFree86 4.0 driver could be used as a hardware accelerator for GGI
> > directly.
> 
> Yes. If the drivers are suitable we will surely do that.
> 
> > However, the move to driver modules makes GGI and XFree86 a lot more
> > alike, so driver "swapping" via thin interface layers may be a very
> > real possibility, which would hopefully lead to some kind of 
> > consolidation.
> 
> YES. We always offered that to the XFree people. In person to some of them.
> 
> > If anyone here is interested in looking at the 4.0 driver specs, I'll
> > see if I can get you the documentation.
> 
> Would be good. I really hope they finally put _ALL_ the card info into the
> driver module.
> 
> CU, ANdy
> 
> -- 
> = Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =