From: jwiede@blammo.engr.sgi.com (John Wiederhirn)
To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: Linux GGI and Linux/SGI
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:40:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9708081540.ZM26801@blammo.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de> "Re: Linux GGI and Linux/SGI" (Aug 9, 12:20am)
On Aug 9, 12:20am, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> > Are there any plans to move (maybe it's already there) the
> > SGI version of Linux to a GGI-model design?
> > (see http://synergy.foo.net/~ggi/)
>
> 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).
John
--
John Wiederhirn (DSD, Graphics Kernel MTS) jwiede@engr.sgi.com
"Smithers, unleash the human insight and creativity."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-08-08 22:41 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 [this message]
1997-08-09 1:23 ` Ralf Baechle
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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