From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 29 10:16:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDE437B57C for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nimrodm@bezeqint.net) Received: from bsd.net.il ([212.179.172.131]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FYG00F6CYLQMA@mail.bezeqint.net> for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:15:27 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00800 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:08:15 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:08:15 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support) In-reply-to: <3982FF55.2AD5356E@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au>; from tpnelson@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au on Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:59:17PM +0800 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000729200815.A772@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: Nimrod Mesika , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <3982FF55.2AD5356E@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:59:17PM +0800, Trent Nelson wrote: > On a more technical note, given an accurate port of the kernel > device driver (which would be trivial at best), is there any > reason these Linux OpenGL drivers & associated libraries can't > just be branded as 'Linux' object types and handled as-per-normal > by linux.ko? After all, it's the kernel driver's responsibility to > manage all the Operating System's specific hardware resource > management etc. I thought the whole point of XFree4 new driver mechanism was that it was OS-neutral. It should be possible to run the same binary driver on all x86 platforms running XFree4 *without* recompiling. I don't know how this driver interacts with the kernel module, though. I'm not sure I even understand why a kernel module is needed in this case. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message