Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:19:23 +0000 (GMT)


> Since it accesses the hardware directly you will need to communicate

Not on a PC.

> hardware you won't need much communication at all, since gfx context
> switching takes care of setting the OpenGL's rendering process' clipping
> window right, and resetting it when X access the hw again.

Not on a PC.

> The hooks to do gfx hw context switching are not yet done in ggi. But it
> needs to be in the kernel. One cannot let the X server do gfx hw context
> switching.

Not on a PC.

> Did you find the mentioned papers worthwile?

Old news.

Alan

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