Messages in this thread |  | | From | John Meacham <> | Subject | Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. (yes, again) | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:04:55 -0700 |
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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Jon Tombs wrote:
> > - If you are going to try and use an existing standard, try the Windows NT > drivers, they are the only 32 bit drivers that you can demand from your > card vendor. > I was curious about this and was looking into reverse engineering the Win95 drivers to work under linux... and the feasability of creating a generic ggi driver to use a random win driver..... hmm as long as you camn identify the code somehow within the module you should be able to dynamically load it and call it from either the kernle or a setuid program... it might actually require kernel suport if they mnake any calls more complex than ioport to comuniquate with the card.... in any case it shouldnt matter to much as it will look the same to GGI apps (Like an X Server) whether the lib is calling a kernel module or a userspace dynamically loaded win95/NT driver....(thats the beauty of it all..) in any case its a hack. hack hack hack... but it could be useful... and hacks are fun.. but it probably should be discussed on the GGI list if at all as that is what it would have to integrate with eventually anyway..... John
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