From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 23 3: 0:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBAB15732 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA87753; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:11:51 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:11:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Theo van Klaveren Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about GLIDE... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Theo van Klaveren wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the process of porting the GLIDE library to FreeBSD/i386 > which is making good progress so far. My worst enemy has been the > build system itself and the huge amount if `#ifdef __linux__' in > the code. > > I am doing this in the light of the Quake source code > release, which I'd like to play natively with 3dFX hardware... :) > (for the interested: I have already gotten the server and X11 > client to build, but I haven't tested them yet.) > > My question is about this particular piece of code in > swlibs/fxpci/pcilib/fxlinux.c, around line 70: > > if (iopl(3)<0) { > pciErrorCode = PCI_ERR_NO_IO_PERM; > return FXFALSE; > } > > Does anyone know what 'iopl(3)' is supposed to do, > and what it's equivalent on FreeBSD is (if at > all available)? > > The code this is in is about opening the /dev/3dfx device > (which is not available for FreeBSD so it'll fail anyway), > so I _could_ just remove it, but I'm not so certain... > > Also, IANAL, so could anyone tell me if the 3DFX license > permits me to publish my patches under a BSD-style license? I already ported the voodoo2 sources for Glide 2.x and Glide 3.x. You can find patches at: http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/Glide-V2-2.53.diff http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/Glide-V2-3.01.diff -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message