From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:29:02 -0600

Re: kgicon -> linux-2.2 ideas (was Re: Makefile vote II)

teunis wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, James A Simmons wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Emmanuel Marty wrote:
> >
> > > Geeze..
> > >
> > > It's "forking week", or is everyone very nervous? Please, all, show some
> > > social skills.. We all want the same thing.
> >
> > Yes I agree. Soory. I would more than anything love to see kgicon make to
> > 2.2. When I saw QNX go in I though oh boy we have a chance but time is
> > running out. 2.2 is due to be out very soon.
>
> Why not pack up a KGI-install of a (working) set of MediaGX KGI/fbcon
> drivers as a patch-set and send that in?  Why send the whole driver tree
> in?
>
> (picking an example from a currently unsupported-in-linux (afaik) card :)

Thanks ;-)Actually Suse's Xfree is on the attack vector for this one.

> (It might not work.  From the list afaik the MediaGX drivers may still
> need work I don't know as I don't have one)

A bit. But I think we need the KGI API to be set in stone before bothering
Linus.

Sengan