From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:04:23 +0200

Re: kgi vs. fbcon

Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > The biggest reasons will be :
> >   o More stable X without needing suid root.
> >   o One X server for all platforms. Not the current XF86 mess.
> >   o Better acceleration than current XF86 (possible?)
> 
>         Doubtful, if "better" means "faster".  XFree86 sits directly on
> top of the hardware.

Can XFree86 do DMA? It certainly can't do IRQs (not that I think
the latter would do much for the speed, but kernel drivers do open
a few interresting possibilities)

//Marcus
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