From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 7 10:17:29 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 EB95E37B719; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA13841; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:17:23 +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: Doug Rabson Cc: , Subject: Re: DRI drivers in base system? References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Mar 2001 19:17:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:51:28 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 27 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 Doug Rabson writes: > Its also partly because there wasn't enough code sharing between the Linux > and BSD drivers and I didn't have enough time to spend keeping the BSD > code up to date. Unfortunately, its rotted quite badly now. Yep. I got MGA kind-of working, but it still panics on unload (the original code is very bad at cleaning up when you unload it), and I have problems with the DMA code. I can almost play AlephOne with my current code (it looks fine, but runs in kind of a stop-and-go fashion due to the DMA trouble) > On the bright side, the linux drivers are being re-done in a much more > modular style and hopefully should allow better BSD support in the long > term. That sounds good. The current code is quite poorly written - I might as well wait for the new Linux code to hit the tree and re-port it from scratch. > I don't have much of an opinion on where the code should live. I think src/sys/dev/dri/ is a good place. The code is under a BSD-like license, so no worries about sys/contrib or anything. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message