Date: 07 Mar 2001 19:17:23 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: <arch@freebsd.org>, <dawes@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DRI drivers in base system? Message-ID: <xzpzoexl9zg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:51:28 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103071348080.29269-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes: > Its also partly because there wasn't enough code sharing between the Linux > and BSD drivers and I didn't have enough time to spend keeping the BSD > code up to date. Unfortunately, its rotted quite badly now. Yep. I got MGA kind-of working, but it still panics on unload (the original code is very bad at cleaning up when you unload it), and I have problems with the DMA code. I can almost play AlephOne with my current code (it looks fine, but runs in kind of a stop-and-go fashion due to the DMA trouble) > On the bright side, the linux drivers are being re-done in a much more > modular style and hopefully should allow better BSD support in the long > term. That sounds good. The current code is quite poorly written - I might as well wait for the new Linux code to hit the tree and re-port it from scratch. > I don't have much of an opinion on where the code should live. I think src/sys/dev/dri/ is a good place. The code is under a BSD-like license, so no worries about sys/contrib or anything. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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