On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> Well, I've had a bit more of a look at DirectFB docs, and
> herein lies the problem: There's no way to essentially do a "checkmode"
> or check anything but raw capabilities; everything is gotten
> on the spot with a "Create" call, which either fails, or actually
> sets up the resource. So, this will present some severe challenges for
> a GGI target and for LibGalloc.
>
> I guess the best we can do is just have checkmode always succeed
> unless there is something obvious wrong -- with the result being
> that setmode will often fail... In Galloc's case, resource requests
> will have to also be approved more or less blindly.
>
> Comments?
>
yeah, rather than use DirectFB as a target why not port DirectFB to use
ggi as the rendering engine. That seems to be more worthwhile. DirectGGI.
Make sense?
> --
> Brian
