Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:43:31 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, dawes@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRI drivers in base system? Message-ID: <20010307134330.C14620@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103070625490.10852-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from scanner@jurai.net on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:33:52AM -0500 References: <200103071121.f27BLxh75773@mobile.wemm.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103070625490.10852-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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FWIW, I absolutely agree with this, on both points - fielding FreeBSD+DRI questions, and DES's work. G'luck, Peter -- I am not the subject of this sentence. On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:33:52AM -0500, scanner@jurai.net wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > For what it is worth, I would like this. Linux has its own DRI in the 2.4 > > kernel tree. (not that it is an excuse to do it, but pointing out that > > others see the wisdom in it too). I had almost suggested this myself on a > > couple of occasions. > > As peter said, I am sure this will be a big massive bikeshed. But I second > the opinion of it going in. This is probably one of the top 3 questions I > hear about FreeBSD. "Whats the status of DRI". "Do you guys have DRI > yet?". "I wanted to install FreeBSD instead of foo Linux but I needed DRI > for my q3". I think it's clearly something the populous wants. And DES has > already done a large chunk of work on it. And if it is something that will > accelerate its adoption into BSD land then I think it would be a mistake > not to bring it in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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