From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: adisaacs@mtu.edu (Andrew Isaacson)
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Resources in X11 port
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:10:52 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m10X8aD-0007TvC@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990413125254.A20170@mtu.edu> from "Andrew Isaacson" at Apr 13, 99 12:52:54 pm
> If you (the porters) are willing to wait until June to have publicly
> distributable code, you should develop for the 4.0 branch rather than
> the 3.3 branch. There are a lot of useful new features in the new
> code base, and the new design is quite a bit easier to code for than
> the old.
Actually I wonder if it will be. Not having seen the code because of the silly
XFree about beta releases its hard to be sure. The X folks I talked to all
pointed me at the 8514 driver - which is very similar in many ways to the
SGI cards - both are designed for X11, both have no direct frame buffer
access and they have fairly similar concepts.
I would urge btw that anyone working on an XFree SGI driver releases it under
a license like the NPL so that the XFree people can't hide it in a locked away
beta release in future.
Alan
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From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: Andrew Isaacson <adisaacs@mtu.edu>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Resources in X11 port
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:10:52 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m10X8aD-0007TvC@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990413191052.s7vz8OIxyCbG5wdSK735sfMDmz4zZk73R18-ZQuS0C4@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990413125254.A20170@mtu.edu> from "Andrew Isaacson" at Apr 13, 99 12:52:54 pm
> If you (the porters) are willing to wait until June to have publicly
> distributable code, you should develop for the 4.0 branch rather than
> the 3.3 branch. There are a lot of useful new features in the new
> code base, and the new design is quite a bit easier to code for than
> the old.
Actually I wonder if it will be. Not having seen the code because of the silly
XFree about beta releases its hard to be sure. The X folks I talked to all
pointed me at the 8514 driver - which is very similar in many ways to the
SGI cards - both are designed for X11, both have no direct frame buffer
access and they have fairly similar concepts.
I would urge btw that anyone working on an XFree SGI driver releases it under
a license like the NPL so that the XFree people can't hide it in a locked away
beta release in future.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-13 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-13 8:57 First Linux/SGI in India Raj Mathur
1999-04-13 10:23 ` Ulf Carlsson
1999-04-13 16:33 ` Resources in X11 port Theodoros Nikitopoulos
1999-04-13 16:52 ` Andrew Isaacson
1999-04-13 17:22 ` Mike Shaver
1999-04-13 19:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
1999-04-13 19:10 ` Alan Cox
1999-04-13 13:45 ` Miguel de Icaza
1999-04-13 21:18 ` Andrew Isaacson
1999-04-13 17:20 ` Miguel de Icaza
1999-04-14 0:17 ` Alan Cox
1999-04-14 0:17 ` Alan Cox
1999-04-14 9:39 ` Torbjorn Gannholm
1999-04-14 10:35 ` Alan Cox
1999-04-14 10:35 ` Alan Cox
1999-04-15 4:36 ` Raj Mathur
1999-04-15 4:36 ` Raj Mathur
1999-04-15 12:58 ` Miguel de Icaza
1999-04-16 0:20 ` Alan Cox
1999-04-16 0:20 ` Alan Cox
1999-04-15 18:38 ` Miguel de Icaza
1999-04-15 18:38 ` Miguel de Icaza
1999-04-13 19:23 ` Ulf Carlsson
1999-04-13 17:21 ` Ulf Carlsson
1999-04-13 20:20 ` Resources in X11 port #2 Theodoros Nikitopoulos
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