From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 29 23:29: 4 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 52AC837B5B9 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:27:39 -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 OAA13308218; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:27:06 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <3983CB07.9436BB0C@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:28:23 +0800 From: Trent Nelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Rooney Cc: Peter Wemm , nimrodm@email.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Rooney wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Trent Nelson wrote: > > > So, given a working FreeBSD-specific kernel device driver - can the > > Linux OpenGL driver/libraries provided be handled via linux.ko? > > i believe the general answer is a definative maybe. but honestly, do you > really care enough to try? 'Maybe' is good enough for me. > that's less than the > programmer time to make the NVidia drivers work is worth, and you can > actually be sure you'll have some kind of success, where the NVidia stuff > is really up in the air. NVIDIA's stand on Open Source can only get better. Unless they're *really* stupid. > -garrett Trent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message