Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:08:15 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika <nimrodm@bezeqint.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support) Message-ID: <20000729200815.A772@localhost.bsd.net.il> In-Reply-To: <3982FF55.2AD5356E@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au>; from tpnelson@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au on Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:59:17PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007281115210.350-100000@armani.yourfit.com> <3982FF55.2AD5356E@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au>
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:59:17PM +0800, Trent Nelson wrote: > On a more technical note, given an accurate port of the kernel > device driver (which would be trivial at best), is there any > reason these Linux OpenGL drivers & associated libraries can't > just be branded as 'Linux' object types and handled as-per-normal > by linux.ko? After all, it's the kernel driver's responsibility to > manage all the Operating System's specific hardware resource > management etc. I thought the whole point of XFree4 new driver mechanism was that it was OS-neutral. It should be possible to run the same binary driver on all x86 platforms running XFree4 *without* recompiling. I don't know how this driver interacts with the kernel module, though. I'm not sure I even understand why a kernel module is needed in this case. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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