Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:25:41 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI Message-ID: <19990307152541.O4858@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199903060712.XAA66928@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:12:41PM -0800 References: <36DFB421.1A845720@newsguy.com> <199903060712.XAA66928@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:12:41PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> (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). Speaking of which (the Linux fb driver, not GGI), we're just adding a driver to XFree86 4.0 that can use the Linux fb driver. It is useful from our point of view for getting initial unaccelerated support for otherwise unsupported video cards. I had a feeling that something similar could be done for FreeBSD (using the VESA support in -current). Is that right? If so, is anyone interested in doing it? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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