From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Mar 9 12:50:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA11134 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 12:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (sc-gw.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA11128 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 12:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA14728; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 13:50:05 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199703092050.NAA14728@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Authentication-Warning: Ilsa.StevesCafe.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 From: Steve Passe To: Amancio Hasty cc: Mark Murray , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone on the list who can check-in the bt848 driver? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 1997 12:22:24 PST." <199703092022.MAA04811@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 13:50:04 -0700 Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > We should discuss with Jim Lowe and Mark Tinguely about divorcing > the meteor ioctl structure from the BT848 . However if we do decide > to divorce the two of then I strongly suggest that we start thinking > about a video graphic library api and its respective implementation. that was a rather brash comment on my part, after a little thought I realized that there must be applications that can use either card for their hardware component. So we don't want to force them to change any code (except perhaps the open call, meteor vs bt). Long term we do need to think about an api. for now I will minimize my additions to ioctl_meteor.h, and demarcate them clearly with a #define. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | SMP FreeBSD