Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 20:20:51 -0800 From: "Craig R" <craigery13@hotmail.com> To: vkushnir@Alfacom.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <F129Rm1eZ3BfkvWPB4H00020d67@hotmail.com>
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I'm going to have to agree with your idea in general, however there are parts that I disagree with. First, taking all of the code from Linux may not be good for the FreeBSD project. That would steer FreeBSD into being more like yet another Linux distro instead of an independent project. Just picture having tons of GPL code and changing the name to "FreeGPL" and how much that would suck. What I think we should do is create a framebuffer system as you suggested, but do it separately with FreeBSD's own developed code and build it straight into the base OS. A linux compatability layer could be made (similar idea as the existing binary support) so that more applications would run, but the system itself would be independant. The idea of framebuffers in general is good, as the XFree86 project appears to be going very slowly with little improvement in performance. If this were to take off, I think it would help FreeBSD a great deal. Seeing the existing OS and how well it performs makes me drool over how well it could run as a desktop with it's own builtin windowing system. As mentioned, I also think that being Linux distro #8000 is not a good idea. FreeBSD and Linux are independant projects and should remain as such. -- Craig >From: Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net> >To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >CC: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> >Subject: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD? > >Hi all, > >A couple of questions here. >i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules, >again)? They work quite nice under Linux for multimedia apps, and it's a >pity we haven't got anything of this kind (TNT2 based v/cards with HW >accelleration, for one). Did anybody try to do that? If so, I would >happily join this project (no money for XFree86-supported card like Matrox >or Radeon :-) > >ii. If not, is there any chance to port Linux's vm86 - based video module >(see MPlayer CVS version, VESA video-out) to our i386_vm86? It alse work >nice under Linux (no HW accelleration but very low overhead instead). > >Any hints would be greatly appreciated. > >TIA, >Vladimir > >-- >Vladimir Kushnir - vkushnir@Alfacom.net > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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