Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:02:07 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net>, "Justin L. Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com>, Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers Message-ID: <20020303170208.2706DBA03@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <E16hZBo-00013J-00@falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net> References: <20020303024505.6646337B400@hub.freebsd.org> <20020303154106.0165637B402@hub.freebsd.org> <E16hZBo-00013J-00@falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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On Sunday 03 March 2002 11:50 am, Bob Giesen wrote: .. which also goes to point out > another positive aspect of vendor-supplied drivers: not having to > develop those drivers allows FBSD user/developers to spend their time > on other productive and/or fun pursuits. The lovely thing about public release of the specs is that FreeBSD developers would still be free to pursue other pursuits--the XFree86 folks would write the accelerated drivers, and *all* Unixy 386-based systems could use them: FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and others that I'm sure are out there that I've never heard of. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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