From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 7 3: 3:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC88137B71A; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 03:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA12373; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:03:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: dawes@freebsd.org Subject: DRI drivers in base system? From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Mar 2001 12:03:39 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG DRI support for FreeBSD in XFree86 4 is languishing, probably mainly due to being maintained outside the FreeBSD source tree, and therefore having all kinds of trouble keeping track of our fast-moving kernel. I am in the process of bringing the KLDs up to date with -CURRENT (using the sources in the 4.0.2 distribution - I haven't finished cvsupping the repo yet). I think I'm about 80% to 90% done - found some bugs in the process, too :) I won't belabour the obvious by explaining how having this code in the FreeBSD source tree would benefit both FreeBSD and XFree86. The total self-contained source for the KLDs (drm, gamma, mga, tdfx) weighs in at slightly less than 400k. The compiled KLDs range from 20k to 70k w/o debugging symbols. (note that this does not replace the 3dfx driver we already have - our 3dfx driver is for Glide, not for XFree86 - but there's a conflict because the 3dfx driver calls itself tdfx internally, which means the kernel can't differentiate between 3dfx and tdfx; this is easily fixed by changing the internal name of one or the other) DES (can't wait to see AlephOne run with 3D acceleration...) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message