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.
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