From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 29 10:27:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F36637B728 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rooneg@rpi.edu) Received: from cortez.sss.rpi.edu (rooneg@cortez.sss.rpi.edu [128.113.113.33]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA400526; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 13:27:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (rooneg@localhost) by cortez.sss.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA135046; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 13:28:00 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: cortez.sss.rpi.edu: rooneg owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 13:28:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Rooney X-Sender: rooneg@cortez.sss.rpi.edu To: nimrodm@email.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support) In-Reply-To: <20000729200815.A772@localhost.bsd.net.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > 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. i believe it requires hooks into the kernel to make use of AGP, which is necessary for high performance 3d rendering. -garrett x----------------------------------------------------------------------x | rooneg@rpi.edu garrett rooney | | http://www.rpi.edu/~rooneg unix geek | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | unrequited love is neat because it lasts so much longer - w. t. c. | x----------------------------------------------------------------------x To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message