Re: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > It is clear that I wasn't precise enough.
> 
> Possibly.
>  
> > I never said that the entire AES should be in kernel mode in any way.
> > I'm only suggesting that the keyboard and mouse handling part of AES/VDI
> > is moved into kernel mode. This includes:
> > 
> > * Mouse and keyboard handling
> > * Cliprectangle handling
> > * handling of window locations
> 
> Please tell me, why clipping and window locations have to be integrated to
> the kernel (whatever way it is done, i assume an XDD).
>  
> > All suggestions so far all in some way suggests using special mouse or
> > keyboard device drivers. I cannot see the difference.
> 
> Well, I can see. Incorporating parts of AES and VDI into the kernel you
> make the kernel designed especially to be used with AES and VDI. We
> _don't_ want that.

 Well.. if it is implemented exclusively as an XDD, this would be alright,
I think. But I agree with you, Konrad, we _don't_ want this code
integrated into the kernel itself.



 Regards,
 
 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org - http://assemsoft.atari.org