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We're working on an experimental operating systeme here at the university of ulm. (some outdated infos can be found on http://www.plurix.de/ - we intend to publish it under an open source license as soon as it is "in shape" enough for this.) We have rather big problems with getting documentation when trying to write our graphics drivers, and so we had the Idea to include binary drivers from other platforms by emulating the environment they need. Windows is not acceptable (We would have to emulate the Win32k, the NToskernel, the HAL and some more, all in all about 2000 API functions to get the drivers working), and so we thought about the XFree 4 binary interface. Our OS is based on a java-like language with our very own compiler (generating i386 machine code), but for the glue code, we could use assembler and c if necessary. Where can I get detailed info about the XFree86 binary driver interface (mainly the 2D and 3D graphics and acceleration part are interesting, we don't need font renderers, input handling etc.) other than from the source? Is there a Document describing the interface and environment such a driver expects? A rough estimation in how much functions etc. would have to be provided is also appreciated. Thanks, Markus -- "GPL software is not free - the cost is cooperation" _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
