From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 29 22: 8:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au (echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au [139.230.33.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A622B37B908 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tpnelson@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au) Received: from echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au (s212n167.rev.ecu.edu.au [139.230.212.167]) by echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA12941629; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:05:24 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <3983B7E1.B89C35CF@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:06:41 +0800 From: Trent Nelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Garrett Rooney , nimrodm@email.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support) References: <200007291947.MAA57344@netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > They provide the OS interface glue to enable interfacing with the > kernel. The driver then completely takes over the card management > in kernel context - busmaster DMA, command fifo managenent, card > memory management, the lot. So, given a working FreeBSD-specific kernel device driver - can the Linux OpenGL driver/libraries provided be handled via linux.ko? > Cheers, > -Peter Regards, Trent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message