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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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