Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:37:48 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl Message-ID: <19980219153748.56552@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980219213936.27649A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 09:44:43PM %2B0100 References: <34EC7EFA.41C67EA6@asme.org> <Pine.NEB.3.95.980219213936.27649A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> stands accused of saying: > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > Jonathan Mini wrote: > > > > > > Soren wants to see it merged into libvgl -- I would prefer to replace > > > libvgl with something more robust at the same time. > > > Hmm.. Maybe I should start work on a 'better libvgl' immediatly, > > > so that the API can affirm itself before I get the VESA VBE code > > > online? > > > > > I'm sort of working of that, but I got distracted by classes (and some > > ports). > > > > The idea is to use a vesa.h for the low level mouse-keyboard-graphic > > support and have vgl and Allegro work on top of that. I am planning to > > use the headers from OS/2's VESA package (for emx), so that we can also > > port their graphic libraries. I have their API here and it seems good > > for my purposes: I dream of porting some DOS-like packages to fullscreen > > FreeBSD :-). > > > > I hadn't thought of MGR, but I'll have to take a look at their library > > because libvgl didn't behave well on my card :( > > Major advantage of MGR is that it's a server-client model, very close in > concept to X, with all advantages of remote clients etc. If we could > hammer out something like this, it would be a big win IMHO. Not that I > like the X protocol (I don't know it too well either), but the concept is > sound and proved useful (at least in case of X). We need to provide a simple core package that all of these things (Allegro, OS/2's evil vesa.h, MGL -- perhaps even Xfree86) can sit on top of. Otherwise everything will fall into chaos _REALLY_ fast. -- Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org) "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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