On Son, 2002-01-20 at 11:09, Philip Brown wrote:

> It might be nice to have some sort of "generic 3d card" stub, that
> would have certain functions common to all 3d cards.
> Nothing too fancy. In fact, NOTHING fancy :-)

Sounds like the current DRM template code...

> Then it would be a lot easier for someone to come in and do a relatively
> small porting effort, to get a new card working.
> Right now, for example, most drivers *REQUIRE* that you have the AGP
> stuff all happy, and who knows what else.

tdfx can't even use AGP, r128 and radeon have PCI GART, and someone
posted PCI patches for mga.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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