From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 5 23:18:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles171.castles.com [208.214.165.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1979014DF1; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:18:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA66928; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903060712.XAA66928@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Terry Lambert , sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GGI In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 1999 19:38:25 +0900." <36DFB421.1A845720@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 23:12:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (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