Re: [Feature Wish] GGI in Linux 2.3

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:34:33 -0500

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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > <offtopic>
> > LibGGI is emerging as the true centerpiece of GGI, not KGI as was
> > first thought. LibGGI is a platform-independent set of dynamic libraries
> > supporting accelerated 2D and 3D display devices with suppport for
> > multiheading/homing, remote displays and a varitey of supported
> > platforms/targets:
> >
> > * Linux/KGI
> > * Linux/X
> > * Linux/3Dfx GLIDE
> > * FreeBSD/X
> > * OpenBSD/X
> > * Solaris/X
> > * Solaris/sunfb
> > * Digital Unix/X
> > * IRIX/X
>
> Can you please be more specific and also tell us the supported platform names?

The only part of GGI that is achitecture dependent is KGI (currently
only x86/Linux). LibGGI is written to be portable, so you can compile
it on just about any Unix platform (with some minor modifications). The
platforms listed above are only the ones that have been tested.

Brian Gerst

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