Hi Dennis, Nick, et al.
-On [20000906 03:30], Dennis Wong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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,
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