Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:18:22 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> To: Dennis Wong <DWong@nvidia.com>, Nick Triantos <nick@nvidia.com> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FW: GeForce 6600 driver Message-ID: <20000906161822.M17616@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <04311C809F7CD411B97D00D0B78EC6B90C6650@nvapollo.nvidia.com>; from DWong@nvidia.com on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:25:50PM -0700 References: <04311C809F7CD411B97D00D0B78EC6B90C6650@nvapollo.nvidia.com>
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Hi Dennis, Nick, et al. -On [20000906 03:30], Dennis Wong (DWong@nvidia.com) wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nick Triantos >> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:20 PM >> To: Dennis Wong >> Subject: RE: GeForce 6600 driver >> >> Hi Dennis, >> >> Actually, we haven't done it yet. However, all of our major Linux >> dependencies should be in the 3 source files which ship as part of our >> kernel module's tarball. If those files were ported to BSD, in theory >> everything else "should" work, though I'm sure we'd need a bit of testing >> before that became fully true. >> >> We do plan to start on a FreeBSD port soon, we just haven't had time yet. >> However, if there's someone interested in trying to help do this port, >> we'd be happy to talk to them. They can email me at nick@nvidia.com. Doug Rabson is the person responsible for the agp miniport driver currently in FreeBSD and I believe he is also a programmer working on the Direct Rendering Infrastructure over at Sourceforge. <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dri/>; Basically what should require work is probably the detection of your [Nvidia] cards and its subsequent support in DRI. I might be a bit off here, but I am sure one of my more knowledgable committers or fellow BSD users will correct me if wrong. >> BTW, we did also speak with the FreeBSD guys at linuxworld, I think we >> have a possible way we could check our code into the FreeBSD tree, which >> would be great once we do get it working well. There's the opportunity of one or more of your people to become a FreeBSD committer, or you can proxy through a committer, such as Mike Smith is doing for Adaptec's DPT driver. >> Feel free to post this, btw. I also really like BSD. Nice to see some BSD interest from the major companies aside from all the Linux hype. =) You cannot believe how happy I am to read things like this. Kind regards, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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