Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 01:13:55 +0100 | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > KGI isn't going away because there are no other proposals to > > deal with the problem that Xservers crash systems. > > Not quite the case > > fbcon already handles this on the PPC, 68K and soon the ARM platform > the sparc code handles this on the sparc (and needs moving to fbcon) > > Its just these funny intel boxes that need moving to some kind of fbcon/kgi > combo. fbcon does all the framebuffer, kgi has the loadable pc > style drivers and some work on acceleration that is going to go somewhere > good whatever shape it ends up in. The combination of the lot once figured > will be real nice for everyone > > Alan
Can best parts of KGI and fbcon be merged? How much work would that propose to both sides?
Andrej
-- Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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