"Brian S. Julin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > For GBL and OVL to work nicely, we will need some way of allocating offscreen
> > video memory. Any ideas on that ? Should that go into LibGGI or should we push
> > it into an extension ?

It needs to go into LibGGI because LibGGI will want to use it for
Put[cs]() and probably CrossBlit().

> If it's going to play nice with SetMode,

It isn't. It should just be a simple allocator for framebuffer memory,
probably similiar to the XFree 3.9 allocator.
All intelligence and knowledge of special requirements should go
into the extensions that has the special requirements.

//Marcus
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