Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:52:01 -0700 From: Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Nick Triantos <nick@nvidia.com> Subject: Re: FW: GeForce 6600 driver Message-ID: <39B7E3D1.2DB30D69@vpop.net> References: <lists.freebsd.hackers.3B87FDB45291D311B89C009027D3B5F8019A5818@nvtom.nvidia.com>
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Sign me up as a tester, when the time comes! (I have a TNT2 Ultra 32M.) Matt Nick Triantos wrote: > > We'll be happy to work with people to get our code up and running, but it's > important to note that our drivers do not use DRI, we use our own direct > rendering mechanism. There are exactly 3 source files which need to be > ported from linux to freebsd, then after that, it should be fairly simple to > get all of our drivers running on FreeBSD. Again, we do intend to do this, > we've just been swamped and haven't yet had bandwidth to do this work. > > Regards, > -Nick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven [mailto:jruigrok@via-net-works.nl] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 7:18 AM > > To: Dennis Wong; Nick Triantos > > Cc: 'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'; Doug Rabson > > Subject: Re: FW: GeForce 6600 driver > > > > > > Hi Dennis, Nick, et al. > > > > -On [20000906 03:30], Dennis Wong (DWong@nvidia.com) wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Nick Triantos > > >> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:20 PM > > >> To: Dennis Wong > > >> Subject: RE: GeForce 6600 driver > > >> > > >> Hi Dennis, > > >> > > >> Actually, we haven't done it yet. However, all of our major Linux > > >> dependencies should be in the 3 source files which ship as > > part of our > > >> kernel module's tarball. If those files were ported to > > BSD, in theory > > >> everything else "should" work, though I'm sure we'd need a > > bit of testing > > >> before that became fully true. > > >> > > >> We do plan to start on a FreeBSD port soon, we just > > haven't had time yet. > > >> However, if there's someone interested in trying to help > > do this port, > > >> we'd be happy to talk to them. They can email me at > > nick@nvidia.com. > > > > Doug Rabson is the person responsible for the agp miniport driver > > currently in FreeBSD and I believe he is also a programmer working on > > the Direct Rendering Infrastructure over at Sourceforge. > > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dri/>; > > > > Basically what should require work is probably the detection of your > > [Nvidia] cards and its subsequent support in DRI. I might be > > a bit off > > here, but I am sure one of my more knowledgable committers or > > fellow BSD > > users will correct me if wrong. > > > > >> BTW, we did also speak with the FreeBSD guys at > > linuxworld, I think we > > >> have a possible way we could check our code into the > > FreeBSD tree, which > > >> would be great once we do get it working well. > > > > There's the opportunity of one or more of your people to become a > > FreeBSD committer, or you can proxy through a committer, such as Mike > > Smith is doing for Adaptec's DPT driver. > > > > >> Feel free to post this, btw. I also really like BSD. > > > > Nice to see some BSD interest from the major companies aside from all > > the Linux hype. =) > > You cannot believe how happy I am to read things like this. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > -- > > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and > > systemadministrator > > <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> VIA Net.Works The Netherlands > > BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl > > Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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