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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:56:17 -0500
From:      Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
To:        robin@isometry.net
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Matrox Parhelia
Message-ID:  <200212271356.17303.mistry.7@osu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000901c2ab43$05f1dad0$026ca8c0@ishadow>
References:  <000901c2ab43$05f1dad0$026ca8c0@ishadow>

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On Tuesday 24 December 2002 06:53 am, Robin Breathe wrote:
> Morning all,
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> I'm hoping to persuade Matrox to port their Linux Parhelia driver to
> FreeBSD.
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> I have mailed them myself already, but would ask that anyone else inter=
ested
> in seeing them develop native FreeBSD drivers for the new card contact
> insales@matrox.com.
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> Reading documentation on the Linux driverset, it looks like they would =
just
> need to port the kernel module to support Bus Mastering, so this really
> isn't asking a lot of them.
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> If anyone has the knowhow and time to help them with the port, I'm sure=
 it
> would further the cause :)
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> - Robin
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> PS: I posted this to hardware earlier, but thought multimedia might get=
 more
> attention as this is largely a multimedia card.
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What I would suggest is that you startup a small website like the FreeBSD=
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Nvidia Driver initative did to get the word out, and find a couple people=
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the community to help work with some Matrox engineers to get a driver out=
=2E

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Anish Mistry

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