Subject: rcons glue for new driver
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Andy Doran <ad@psn.ie>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/22/1999 01:30:52
I need a little advice on the new PX/PXG etc. driver. This won't work with
rcons (since it's not a raster device) without quite a bit of hacking to
rcons, and since rcons is used for more than 1 platform, it seems like a
bad idea. Do we actually keep a 'localised' version in the pmax tree?

Furthermore, the driver seems like an *ideal* candidate for wscons, which
has hooks for accelerated boards. As far as I remember, this would require
a rewrite of the lk201 stuff. What's the situation here?

The current status is support for the 2D and low/mid-end 3D accelerated
boards. I still have to add code for the boards with the i860, since we
have to ask it if it's ok to grab packet buffers, etc.

Andy.