Subject: Re: Amiga and Retina ZII
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 02/25/1999 21:06:07
In article <19990225114815.A12513@localhost>,
	Bernd Sieker <bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> writes:
> I'd like to know, though, why support for it has been dropped.

Because it requires a heavily modified X11 server which nobody maintains
these days.

Of course you can write a kernel driver which uses the MMU to turn the
Retina ZII into a linear frame buffer suitable for "Xamiga" but it will
probably be quite slow.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/