> > Jason and Steffen since you have attempted multiheaded support before
> > your input will be greatly welcomed :> If we all work together we can come
> > up with one heck of a solution. This is going to be my project at 3Dfx.
> > It's going to kick butt to have quake run on multiple heads of course with
> > several voodoo cards.
>
> Sure, but this requires you have some people you may put your input into
> and that that some people need to care what you say. From what I
> understand
> your statements above, the effort so far has been private conversation
> between Vojtech Pavlik, myself, and Geert Uytterhoeven. KGI has been
> open
> since it's beginning, is open, and remains open to anyone willing to
> contribute.
Actually its been just ideas tossed around between us. I have brought up
the idea of a new console system several times on several mailing list to
get more people involved. Its just no one is interested right now. Once
2.4.X is out people will begain to look at 2.5.X and this is the kernel
that will have multiheaded support. So interest will build. Also the
changes must come in small patches at a time. I have learned this the hard
way. Big patches will just be ignored :( What is needed is a seperate
mailing list to discuss these ideas.
P.S
Since you have been playing with the concept of mapping resources to
userspace I have something that might be of interest to you. This will be
fully introduced in the 2.5.X linux kernel and is the core of Solaris and
IRIX. Its called the splice I/O model. Its at
http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/splice.ps. Actually Larry McVoy home
page has lots of good stuff. The amusements section is really good. His
home page is http://www.bitmover.com/lm
Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am"
James Simmons (o_
fbdev/gfx developer (o_ (o_ //\
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