From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 26 1:23:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DBC37B7F5 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 01:23:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12kN6i-000ASL-0C; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:23:41 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA43661; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:24:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:29:05 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: shocking@prth.pgs.com Cc: Coleman Kane , multimedia@freebsd.org, shocking@ugly.prth.tensor.pgs.com Subject: Re: DRI on XF86 4.0 In-Reply-To: <200004260810.QAA27528@ugly.prth.tensor.pgs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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