From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 7 20:27:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat196.27.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.196.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D597414E67; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA51000; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 00:26:02 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 00:26:02 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Mike Smith Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Terry Lambert , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI In-Reply-To: <199903060712.XAA66928@dingo.cdrom.com> 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 Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > (changed, subject, list, and cc list... it's almost a new mail! :) > > > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > ... > > > I can't do the work for FreeBSD until it adopts GGI, and supports ELF > > ... > > > > > > The GGI people have been looking for someone (with commit priviledges, > > > obviously) to do a FreeBSD port, and have gone so far as to put the > > > kernel pieces of their predominantly Linux project *in the public domain*. > > > > I looked at GGI, and I liked it. If my memory doesn't fail me, Soren > > remarked that he was not much impressed with it last he checked it. > > > > What I'd like to know is if the Powers That Be of FreeBSD console > > (Soren and Yokota?) would, present state of the code > > notwithstanding, accept the adoption of GGI once deemed to be > > "ready", or if there is any fundamental flaw with it that makes this > > a hopeless propositon. > > Just FWIW, I was approached by one of the GGI group (actually, in the > employ of Creative, who are apparently going crazy right now about > cross-platform support) at Linuxworld. The GGI folks seem quite fervent > about fixing GGI so that everyone loves it, and they see FreeBSD as > possibly a better place to start getting it right than Linux (which > already has a half-assed framebuffer driver). If this means that my Creative Blaster RivaTNT video card will be supported in 3D accelerated mode, I'll volunteer my computer to guinea pig any drivers/software ... A friend just picked himself up a Voodoo2 card that Linux now supports and keeps cramming down the "FreeBSD doesn't support 3D accelleration" line down my throat :( My card is *supposedly* faster then what he has, from comparing specs...be great if I can slam it back down his throat :) Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message