From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 11 19:30:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141F737B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02344; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:00:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:00:14 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alexey Dokuchaev Subject: Re: Porting NVidia linux kernel modules to FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, thierry@herbelot.com, Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message