Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers.

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu)
Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:40:51 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Alan Shutko wrote:

> But on the matter at hand, are you talking about their gameplay, or
> their graphics abilities? If Doom, Abuse, etc can get good
> performance from SVGAlib or X, then other games can as well. There's
> no need to try to put something in the kernel which has already been
> done.

No one is saying that the existing solutions don't work (although
SVGAlib is a bit behind the times right now), but that they are suboptimal.

Jon Taylor = <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu> | <http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~taylorj>
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