Hi !
First of all, I'm sorry, that the mail you quoted somehow got stuck somewhere
without me noticing and resending. So it is a bit ancient ...
> > I am still waiting for volunteers. The Xfree people have kindly invited us
> > to do the several interoperability projects I proposed, so I really need
> > some people that do it.
> > Jon - is that a raised hand I see there ? ;-)
> Um... perhaps. I will not become an XFree86 registered developer,
> as I do not support their closed development and mailing list policies.
> But I have no problem with taking their publically-available documentation
> and sources and hacking something together based on that.
O.K. - that should suffice.
> I have done some reading of the new XFree86 4.0 driver interface
> documentation, and it appears that there are two main tasks: writing an
> unaccelerated linear framebuffer driver and writing a XAA-on-GGI driver.
I suppose the XFree people will take care of a simple fb driver themselves.
> The first should be quite easy - copy the existing fbcon/fbdev driver and
> tweak it to use LibGGI.
According to Marcus, this will be problematic, as XFree modules may not
link to external libs. That will complicate LibGGI interfacing much.
> > Ahem ... it would go around KGI I'd say, maybe making use of SUIDKGI as a
> > code base and I am also willing to assist, as writing KGI wrappers is
> > something I seem to do on a regular basis.
> This could be done, but why? Why not use LibGGI?
See above. Don't know, if there is a workaround yet. Marcus ?
> The 2D XAA functions should map to LibGGI's API
Yes, if we get around the linking problem, that would be the nicest way to
actually _use_ it.
However I'd like to have an KGI->XAA wrapper to show off the power of KGI.
> Anyway, as soon as we have the above issue worked out I'll take a crack at
> it.
Great. Marcus: Can you two coordinate this ?
I will be very short of time in the next months, so please bear with me not
coding much in the near future ... sorry.
CU, ANdy
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