On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, Christoph Egger wrote:

> > 
> > 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...

I thought of this too.  Does it?  I mean it's just a few more registers to
reset (on top of the CPU registers).  If they don't use this then how do they
get  RRM to work?   

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Lee Brown Jr.
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