From owner-freebsd-multimedia  Tue Apr  3  4:33:34 2001
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From: Marc van Woerkom <3d@hub.freebsd.org>
To: cokane@freebsd.org
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In-reply-to: <20010402174346.A71931@cokane.yi.org> (message from Coleman Kane
	on Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:43:46 -0400)
Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers
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Date: Tue,  3 Apr 2001 04:33:31 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Coleman,

> linux kernel running within FreeBSD, but rather a translation layer that re=
> codes
> system calls for FreeBSD before the system handles them. Kernel objects
> are a far different story.

you seem right. The module is not called a kernel module because it
bundles the glx modules traffic to the kernel, it seems to be
a kernel object - and such can't be interpreted by the Linuxlator.

I need to get familiar with at least two topics:
- how FreeBSD kernel modules work
- how to add a driver

Every time I try to tackle these topics, I seem to have not much
more choice than strolling through the existing code and hoping for
enlightenment.. :)

Regards,
Marc


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