"Jon M. Taylor" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
> Your mail client is wrapping your posts at 84 columns....
>
> > In fact, I think video memory management should be at the very core of GGI,
>together
> > with drawing primitives. Every advanced program will require that.
>
> _Resources_ are at the core of GGI. Not every target has video
> memory to manage. We _should_ write an extension for this, but to do it
> properly requires a great deal of OS-level code and probably direct
> integration with the VM subsystems of the OS itself. Seeing as how
> Linux's method of "managing" the AGP GART pagetable mappings is to expose
> a /dev/agpgart and use ioctl()s to establish the mappings <vomit>, or that
> MTRRs are set/read using write()/read() on /proc/mtrr <gag!>, I think
> we'll be waiting for this until 2.5/2.6 kernels at the earliest.
What do the kernel developers think about that ? Doesn't Alan work on some video
architecture ? Are they totally satisfied with the current state ? Or do they
assume that there is no life after X ? ;)
Regards, Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
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