Re: Low level graphics access

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:52:03AM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > since it has no hardware acceleration unless you
> > install some horribly alpha kernel drivers.
> > Which (a) you might as
> > well just use directly,
> 
> I am wondering why one should rewrite hardware drivers again and again.
> Why not contribute the work to one of the libggi targets?

The hardware drivers are independent of GGI. It's just an abstraction
layer.

> > and (b) are not really being developed much these days.
> 
> Seems true, too. Although what they made is pretty impressive:
> 
> You have an GGI application and it searches for it's output device:
> 
> ggiterm works whether I got X running or I am using fb or I can even
> use it with kgi.

Same thing is true for SDL, which is just another abstraction
layer. Absent real hardware support, neither would be noticably better
than the other.

Also, GGI doesn't run on the 3d engine, and radeons can't do alpha
blending on the 2d engine. So it's the wrong abstraction layer
(again). Note that the right one does not exist.

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