On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:40:42PM +0100, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> > I still trying to get my head around all this stuff. Two simple questions:
> >
> > KGIcon makes KGI drivers look like fbdev drivers, right ? Now, if I run a
> > GGI program on a fbdev console, does it think it's just running on a fbdev
> > device, or does it realise all the KGI stuff is hidden behind there, and use
> > all that as well ?
>
> LibGGI detects KGIcon drivers, and is currently able to make use of
> generic acceleration though ioctl()s.
>
> > The other thing is that the i740 code I'm converting from XFree has a few
> > parameters that allow overriding autodetected stuff, and so on. I don't
> > want to throw away functionality, so how are parameters passed into the
> > driver ? I can't see where this happens in the code.
>
> Currently, you simply must use the regular Linux kernel MODULE_PARM()
> macro to pass driver-specific parameters.
This helps a lot to clarify things - thanks.
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