On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Lee Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > Be careful here. Even IRIX doesn't have graphics drivers. What is does do
> > is virtualize the graphics engine. Even on a O2000 you can stall the
> > graphics enegine. In this case the RRM noticed hey process blah messed up
> > and lets kill it then.
>
> Thank you for responding to my original request. As a result I read a little
> on RRM. You have clever friends. This idea of multiplexing the graphics
> registers is interesting. I guess you would have to put graphics context into
> the task struct in order for it to work. When the kernel switches tasks, not
> only does it set the cpu registers it sets the graphics registers too.
> Or something like that.
I doubt, that Linus will accept that in this way, because that slows down the
task-switching rapidly...
Christoph Egger
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