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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:00:14 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, thierry@herbelot.com, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Subject:   Re: Porting NVidia linux kernel modules to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010312140014.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103120921460.24090-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>

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On 12-Mar-01 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Meaning, 3.3.6 + utah_glx outperforms by a factor of two 4.0.2 + DRI?!
> > 
>  
>  Or, even better, 4.0.2 + "suppose-we-managed-to-port-it nvidia kernel
>  module" + nvidia binary 'nvidia' replacement module for XFree-4's 'nv'
>  driver?  I mean, will 336/utah be better??

No, nvidia's binary driver would be (a lot) faster.

The Utah-GLX one doesn't direct render which slows it down a lot. (All the GL
commands go through the X pipe)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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