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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:29:05 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        shocking@prth.pgs.com
Cc:        Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, multimedia@freebsd.org, shocking@ugly.prth.tensor.pgs.com
Subject:   Re: DRI on XF86 4.0 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004260926590.79607-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200004260810.QAA27528@ugly.prth.tensor.pgs.com>

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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth wrote:

> > > Will FreeBSD need that DRI kernel support like linux does, or will the
> > > DRI module be able to access what it needs? I have a g200 and would
> > > like to be able to take advantage of it.
> > 
> > Yes it will. I currently have DRI working for voodoo3 hardware but I
> > intend to port the mga kernel driver for g200 and g400 support.
> > 
> 
> Sweet - are these changes back in the DRI CVS tree? If so, I think a
> Voodoo 3/4/5 might be in my future. How do Linux GL apps interact with
> the BSD DRI implementation?

Not yet. I updated my DRI tree yesterday so make sure that the tdfx driver
still works with the latest code and I'll give them another nudge.

I haven't tried running any Linux apps but I think it should be possible.

> 
> I see that nVida have released their Linux binary drivers which are
> apparently as fast as or faster than their windows counterparts. There
> are supposedly some legal encumberances to be gotten rid of before
> they can fully open source them.

This is a good start.

> 
> I've sent some patches to the Utah-GLX people to allow the use of
> NASM, so that people with AMD CPUs and FreeBSD can benefit from the
> 3dnow code in Mesa. Does anyone know when our binutils will be
> updated?

I think David O'Brien is intending to update the binutils in -current
fairly soon.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 20 8442 9037




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