From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : GGI mailing list <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:28:17 -0800 (PST)

Re: Linuxworld report

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

	I moved this discussion back to the mailing list.

> 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.

	Yeah, I noticed that.  Still it is a LOT better than nothing!  
Thanks for your hard work.
 
> XAA is definitely what we want to use for the next XGGI, and getting
> GLX support isn't too bad either...
> 
> Unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on XGGI, the only thing
> I've done is keeping it up with current LibGGI and fixing the
> modesetting
> and input code.
> 
> IIRC Steffen has been looking a bit at xaa though?

	Yes, there is XAA support code in the new KGI.  I have not looked 
at it closely yet, though.

Jon

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