From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 12:23:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435821065746 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:23:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BD68FC0C for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1O2kZW-0004QO-Al; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:22:58 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov To: Werner Lehmann References: <41D5F61C.3050002@arcor.de> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:22:57 +0400 In-Reply-To: <41D5F61C.3050002@arcor.de> (Werner Lehmann's message of "Sat, 01 Jan 2005 02:00:12 +0100") Message-ID: <73830318@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: graphics/linux-f10-dri X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:23:01 -0000 On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 02:00:12 +0100 Werner Lehmann wrote: > as a casual FreeBSD-User und an enthusiastic Gamer I am especially > concerned about how 3d-games run on FreeBSD. If I understand things > right, most of the games are linux-ports, and rely on the opengl > subsystem provided by the port graphics/linux-f10-dri when using > linux-base-f10, which is MESA-Version 7.2. > But for a while now the FreeBSD OpenGL subsystem has been Mesa 7.4.4, > an recently can even be compiled to 7.6 using the flag > "WITHOUT_NOUVEAU="yes". > So if the port linux-f10-dri still is Mesa-Version 7.2, all > linux-games will still be limited to that really old Mesa-version and > not benefit from the newer Mesa-version in FreeBSD. Is that true? > And if so, what work is being done to get graphics/linux-f10-dri on > pair with the FreeBSD-OpenGL-Subsystem being 7.4 or 7.6? And sure 7.8 > will come to FreeBSD soon, too. > Would you please give me a short reply and tell if you are looking > into that matter? If packages for Fedora 10 with Mesa 7.4/7.6 exist then please give us a link and we'll see what can be done. If there are no such packages then a big work to support, say, Fedora 12 ports should be done (it's about 50 linux infrastructure ports). -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve