Return-Path: Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id <154200-27302>; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 04:28:37 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <154434-27302>; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 04:28:18 -0500 Received: from styx.cs.kuleuven.ac.be ([134.58.40.3]:40512 "EHLO styx.cs.kuleuven.ac.be" ident: "TIMEDOUT2") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <154144-27302>; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 04:25:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:43:21 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: "Robert G. Werner" Cc: Ben Bridgwater , kernel-list Subject: Re: Linux Graphics Architecture (format fixed) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 40 On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Robert G. Werner wrote: > What was the consensus, Geert? Knowing what the fbdev people decided might > squash out of gamut discussions on lkml. For what it's worth, Fabrice Bellard wrote: | I read the papers of SGI and the related papers about XFree 3d. I | understand that implementing an acceleration API in fbdev will clearly | hurt the performances and add too much bloat in ther kernel, especially | for 3D acceleration. I understand too that if the hardware is well | designed, the kernel support for the graphical acceleration can be | small, consistent and elegant. | | So I changed my mind and I admit now that we should concentrate in | puting in fbcon/fbdev only things related to text mode and mode | switching. References: - SGI paper: http://trant.sgi.com/opengl/docs/Direct/direct.html - XFRee86-3D: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/XFree86-3D-status.html Greetings, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/