Hi !
> > Is anyone working on a wrapper that will allow XFree86 4.0 drivers to be
> > built from the existing KGIcon interface?
I am still waiting for volunteers. The Xfree people have kindly invited us
to do the several interoperability projects I proposed, so I really need some
people that do it.
I expect Marcus to want to do the LibGGI XFree module, but the other tasks
are still open.
Jon - is that a raised hand I see there ? ;-)
> The wrapper would probably go around SUID-KGI, not KGIcon. KGIcon
> is meant for wrapping the _fbdev_ interface around KGI drivers, and as
> such is heavily kernelspace-dependent.
Ahem ... it would go around KGI I'd say, maybe making use of SUIDKGI as a
code base and I am also willing to assist, as writing KGI wrappers is
something I seem to do on a regular basis.
> SUID-KGI is already designed to
> run KGI drivers in userspace, so I imagine that it would take considerably
> less work to bridge to the XFree86 4.0 driver API.
I don't think it will save much, except maybe the allocating and freeing
of ressources. I assume an XFree wrapper will need to do more dispatching,
as compared to GGI-derived systems, that all use the KGIcommand system to
communicate acceleration requests.
CU, Andy
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