On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > > > I'm interested in also setting up Z
> > > > and alpha buffers. How would I go about doing that ?
> >
> > Basically same thing ... add a function to allocate them to the kernel
> > driver and them mmap. We should talk about a generic API for requesting
> > such extra features, though.
>
> No mmap. Yuk!!
Sometimes you have to.
> I like to be able to set a flag and then have the module
> look at the flag and try to load that feature.
Sure, that is what suggest-strings in KGI are used for. They
allow the kernel driver to tell userspace what features are available.
Jon
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