From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 6 3:32: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF46637B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015BA43E65 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:32:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g76AV5ZL035740; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 20:01:05 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Pierre Beyssac Cc: Bill Huey , Frank Mayhar , Alp ATICI , Ed Yu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020806115753.A85868@bofh.enst.fr> References: <200208051636.g75GaamW000669@realtime.exit.com> <20020806040903.GA4316@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020806115753.A85868@bofh.enst.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Aug 2002 20:01:05 +0930 Message-Id: <1028629868.16577.110.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 19:27, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > As you describe it, it would be almost acceptable. But that's not > as simple as that as I recall it. The supposedly "portable" part > is still a Linux i386 object file -- maybe Nvidia's definition of > portable, but not mine. It has 3 parts. A binary only blob for the kernel, open source code to go with it, binary only GL drivers and a binary only X driver. The idea is you port the open source stuff and link it with the binary glue and get yourself a KLD to run. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message