From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 29 21: 2: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E07E37B689 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from mini.acl.lanl.gov (root@mini.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.34]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA7080167 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:01:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by mini.acl.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05805 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:01:58 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: mini.acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:01:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-Sender: rminnich@mini.acl.lanl.gov To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support) In-Reply-To: <3982FF55.2AD5356E@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> 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 actually you're not even getting kernel driver source for linux. What you're getting is an ugly binary blob that looks like the guts of an NT driver, plus enough source stuff to let the kernel hook to the binary blob. It's not pretty. And, as you might expect, it's a little prone to failure. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message