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, > > I'm hoping to persuade Matrox to port their Linux Parhelia driver to > FreeBSD. > > I have mailed them myself already, but would ask that anyone else interested > in seeing them develop native FreeBSD drivers for the new card contact > insales@matrox.com. > > 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. > > If anyone has the knowhow and time to help them with the port, I'm sure it > would further the cause :) > > - Robin > > PS: I posted this to hardware earlier, but thought multimedia might get more > attention as this is largely a multimedia card. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > > What I would suggest is that you startup a small website like the FreeBSD Nvidia Driver initative did to get the word out, and find a couple people in the community to help work with some Matrox engineers to get a driver out. -- Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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