Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:21:59 -0700 From: Nick Triantos <nick@nvidia.com> To: "'Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven'" <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>, Dennis Wong <DWong@nvidia.com> Subject: RE: FW: GeForce 6600 driver Message-ID: <3B87FDB45291D311B89C009027D3B5F8019A5818@nvtom.nvidia.com>
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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
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