From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 16 8:12:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC7837B400; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.utep.edu (mail.cs.utep.edu [129.108.5.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D88C43E3B; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from janb@cs.utep.edu) Received: from gecko (gecko [129.108.5.51]) by cs.utep.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8GFCSC08700; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:12:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:12:27 -0600 (MDT) From: X-Sender: To: Jason Andresen Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Pookie , , , Subject: Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card In-Reply-To: <3D85E8F7.E801B994@mitre.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How difficult would it be to write a compatibility layer for linux drivers? It was done for MACH a while back.... JAn On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Jason Andresen wrote: > "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > > > As those who have been following this topic know the drivers will be > > released "any day now". > > The FAQ is particularly telling: > > Q: Why doesn't NVIDIA do the port by itself? > A: The guys at NVIDIA's driver department are simply too busy with (most > likely) Windows and Linux drivers, as well as the upcoming GeForce 3. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > How long is this support going to take? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message