On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Firstname Lastname wrote:
>
> >Well. Concerning this issue, currently, with GGI: you do not need to patch
> >your kernel, but you can of course if you really insist in doing it.
> >It may sound funny, but, in fact:
> > - KGIcon is a bridge that allows to use KGI (1998 version) drivers
> >within the context of the (now standard) linux fbcon/fbdev API. It also
> >allows to use standard fbdev-only hw drivers (unless I stand corrected).
>
> ok, I'm fuzzy here. if libggi can use KGI or fbcon, then why make a KGIcon
> driver (differnt fron the KGI driver) which redirects KGI calls to fbcon
> calls?
In order to be able to use the KGI drivers without having to patch
the kernel. You lose quite some KGI functionality by doing this (no new
console system, no input device handling, no memory mapping optimizations,
etc), but you can still use the KGI drivers.
Jon
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