Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 23:12:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GGI Message-ID: <199903060712.XAA66928@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 1999 19:38:25 %2B0900." <36DFB421.1A845720@newsguy.com>
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> (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). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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