On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > Well, there is already an open source XFree86 driver for
> > framebuffer only, this would be easy to port and I can probably release
> > that stuff from my KGI driver as source as well.
>
> Hmm - did you design the driver so, that you can release everything but the
> accel driver, and it will work when linking with the generic/generic accel
> driver ?
Yes. I'll have to tidy up the includes and what not and maybe
chop out some of the 3d buffer management, but that's extremely minor
stuff. Other than that, it is a normal modular KGI driver.
> That is how such situations should be handled IMHO.
>
> Thus the fundamentalists can just link a little different and be happy.
Yes, I had that in mind when I wrote it.
Jon
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