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Date:      Tue, 6 Aug 2002 04:49:32 -0700
From:      Bill Huey (Hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To:        Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
Cc:        Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>, Alp ATICI <atici@cpw.math.columbia.edu>, Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bill Huey (Hui)" <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject:   Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
Message-ID:  <20020806114932.GA20382@gnuppy.monkey.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020806134404.A87813@bofh.enst.fr>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208050157420.15528-100000@cpw.math.columbia.edu> <200208051636.g75GaamW000669@realtime.exit.com> <20020806040903.GA4316@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020806115753.A85868@bofh.enst.fr> <20020806103047.GA19825@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020806134404.A87813@bofh.enst.fr>

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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:44:04PM +0200, Pierre Beyssac wrote:
> It doesn't have to show up as a link symbol since it's a syscall.
> It can also be invoked using a i386 interrupt instruction. But I
> can't find any in nvidia_drv.o, so either there are none or I'm not
> looking the right way or at the right place.

...

> Interesting... So the ioctl() stuff I heard about was probably
> referring to code in the Linux XFree server.

It was just explained to me that there's a kind of copy in/out
(userspace to kernel) that's automatically done in FreeBSD and that
they screwed up on their declaration of ioctl supporting functions,
so yes, you're partially right about ioctl stuff being screwed.
It's got to be pseudo-marshalled between both systems or something
like that. What other stuff goes on where I don't know, it's not
my focus at this time (relief). ;)

bill


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