From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 15:12:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1964C37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuis.piwebs.com (t-indiv5-74.athome.tue.nl [131.155.241.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C32343FDD for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:12:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 25990 invoked by uid 85); 22 Jun 2003 22:13:23 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4210. spamassassin: 2.x. Clear:SA:0(-5.0/5.0):. Processed in 11.962404 secs); 22 Jun 2003 22:13:23 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.109) (192.168.0.109) by 0 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2003 22:13:10 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:12:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200306221343.08932.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20030622130154.X76384@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20030622130154.X76384@sasami.jurai.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306230012.16953.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: nVidia nForce2 AGP chipset drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:12:33 -0000 On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:02, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > > Now that nVidia has released kernel patches for Linux to support their > > AGP chipset (see > > http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0261), is it possible > > to easily port these patches and include them in the agp(4) driver? > > > > How does one start with such a thing? > > I actually started writing a driver based on the released Linux one but > don't actually have the hardware to test things. Hmm... I don't have the hardware either, but I was thinking about buying a new mainboard based on it (if there is support in FreeBSD, of course :)). Maybe someone who actually has an nForce2 board can help us out here? Can you post the patches to the list so that someone can test them? Arjan