Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source

Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
25 Feb 1998 12:59:34 -0600


> I agree that such schemes might be impossible to implement on common
> hardware, but there allready exists checp cards that do this, among
> others those based on the Permedia2 chipset, which are <$250. That is
> not an issue here I belive.

As I told you in private mail, implementing direct rendering requires
a set of features to be available from your hardware before you can do
it.

If you can not use your cpu mmu to control the access to the
accelerator register, you need the direct rendering application to be
suid (to get access to those ports).

Miguel.

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miguel@gnu.org

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