Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 1996 02:42:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. |
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On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > Rather then having to support every card natively why not just support > > > > VESA standard version 2.0? > > > > > > Arghh.. thud thud thud > > > > > > VESA last time I looked was a 16 bit standard > > > > 2.0 is 32-bit protected mode. > > Is it a 64-bit one? Does it work on alpha's, MIPS's, ARM's, Sparcs, PowerPC's > etc etc?
Not sure, actually. Lots of video cards are PCI-based, and both Apples and Alphas, as ell as generic PPC boxes, have PCI slots, however, that wouldn't affect the GGI.
> Is anybody home at all there?
Very.
> The _only_ standard there is for anything like > this is X. There simply isn't any reasonable alternative.
Only because no one has written one yet.
> I'm not saying we should kill SVGAlib and DOSemu and GGI etc etc, but they > should be considered temporary solutions to specific problems, NOT a generic > kernel kind of thing. As such, they get the minimal kernel support they > deserve, and nothing more (and that support they already have).
Hm. Well, we will continue to work on the GGI, and hopefully someday we can convince you to give us a shot. As far as X goes, we hope to someday convince the XFree86 people to write a GGI-using X server. Another big coup would be id software and crack dot com. If we could present them with an API that let them write non-X-using games (other than SVGAlib), they might be inclined to use it rather than X.
Jon Taylor = <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu> | <http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~taylorj> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks." - Lazarus Long
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