From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de>
To: jwiede@blammo.engr.sgi.com (John Wiederhirn)
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Linux GGI and Linux/SGI
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 03:23:35 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199708090123.DAA28961@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9708081540.ZM26801@blammo.engr.sgi.com> from "John Wiederhirn" at Aug 8, 97 03:40:30 pm
> > Well, we have discussed using GGI. Last I checkend GGI was still itself
> > in a state of flux and the last thing I want to do is to open another
> > battle field. Technical reasons against GGI was mostly that the original
> > design was very bloated as far as the kernel is affected. This has
> > been improoved somwhat since.
>
> I'm not so attached to the notion of GGI as much as for gfx
> having an in-kernel-space presence in Linux (Linux/SGI is
> going to need this, as I suspect is any Linux that attempts
> hardware acceleration of OpenGL or other similar APIs).
Miguel "Da Newport Man" de Icaza is working on the required kernel stuff.
Since a real native GFX support is a fairly big project currently the
emulation stuff needed for the SGI X server has priority.
Ralf
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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de>
To: John Wiederhirn <jwiede@blammo.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Linux GGI and Linux/SGI
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 03:23:35 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199708090123.DAA28961@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
Message-ID: <19970809012335.eVfH2DLckRozoMu8YlO-u2dm16jE0yxazx3oPcmRVQc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9708081540.ZM26801@blammo.engr.sgi.com> from "John Wiederhirn" at Aug 8, 97 03:40:30 pm
> > Well, we have discussed using GGI. Last I checkend GGI was still itself
> > in a state of flux and the last thing I want to do is to open another
> > battle field. Technical reasons against GGI was mostly that the original
> > design was very bloated as far as the kernel is affected. This has
> > been improoved somwhat since.
>
> I'm not so attached to the notion of GGI as much as for gfx
> having an in-kernel-space presence in Linux (Linux/SGI is
> going to need this, as I suspect is any Linux that attempts
> hardware acceleration of OpenGL or other similar APIs).
Miguel "Da Newport Man" de Icaza is working on the required kernel stuff.
Since a real native GFX support is a fairly big project currently the
emulation stuff needed for the SGI X server has priority.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-08-09 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-08 17:41 Linux GGI and Linux/SGI John Wiederhirn
1997-08-08 22:20 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-08 22:20 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-08 22:40 ` John Wiederhirn
1997-08-09 1:23 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
1997-08-09 1:23 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-09 17:16 ` Vincent Renardias
1997-08-09 17:41 ` your mail Ralf Baechle
1997-08-09 17:41 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-09 19:40 ` Vincent Renardias
1997-08-09 19:42 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-09 19:42 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-09 21:05 ` Vincent Renardias
1997-08-09 21:11 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-09 21:11 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-08-10 2:57 ` Vincent Renardias
1997-08-09 22:53 ` Mike Shaver
1997-08-09 22:53 ` Mike Shaver
1997-08-09 19:00 ` Linux GGI and Linux/SGI Miguel de Icaza
1997-08-09 18:46 ` Miguel de Icaza
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