greased ggi anyone?

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:38:12 -0500

There is one particular aspect of ggi that has always struck me as
making sense: putting video mode switching into kernel space.

Hypothetically, for the moment, what would it take implement this
pearl? I can think of three things:

(1) putting that part of the kggi interface into a development kernel.
(2) patch X to support this ioctl
(3) patch svga to support this ioctl

Ultimately, I'd like to be able to take any running graphics program,
hit it with kill -9 and not lose my console.

-- 
Raul


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