Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support)

2000-07-29 Thread Trent Nelson
Garrett Rooney wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Trent Nelson wrote: > > > So, given a working FreeBSD-specific kernel device driver - can the > > Linux OpenGL driver/libraries provided be handled via linux.ko? > > i believe the general answer is a definative maybe. but honestly, do you

Can ordinary users run libvgl applications?

2000-07-29 Thread Lars Eighner
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Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support)

2000-07-29 Thread Garrett Rooney
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Trent Nelson wrote: > So, given a working FreeBSD-specific kernel device driver - can the > Linux OpenGL driver/libraries provided be handled via linux.ko? i believe the general answer is a definative maybe. but honestly, do you really care enough to try? it seems li

Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support)

2000-07-29 Thread Trent Nelson
Peter Wemm wrote: > They provide the OS interface glue to enable interfacing with the > kernel. The driver then completely takes over the card management > in kernel context - busmaster DMA, command fifo managenent, card > memory management, the lot. So, given a working FreeBSD-speci

Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Videocard support)

2000-07-29 Thread Ronald G Minnich
actually you're not even getting kernel driver source for linux. What you're getting is an ugly binary blob that looks like the guts of an NT driver, plus enough source stuff to let the kernel hook to the binary blob. It's not pretty. And, as you might expect, it's a little prone to failure. ron

Re: ANSI compliance, gcc(1) and FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Greg Black
> Apologies if this is the wrong list for this question but it seems the > best place to get a *definitive* answer. The best place to get a definitive answer about C is in the Standard. The best place to get a definitive answer about gcc is in the source. > In the ANSI Standard (K&R 2e, A7.14 &

Re: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O.

2000-07-29 Thread Andreas Dobloug; UiO; H98
* Charles Randall | Could it be a boundary condition when the PCI bus gets saturated? When this happens there's at least 5000-6500 interrupts/sec on the SCSI-controller (reported by systat). How many cycles do each interrupt use? (ahc-driver+SMP) -- Andreas Dobloug To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support)

2000-07-29 Thread Peter Wemm
Garrett Rooney wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > > I thought the whole point of XFree4 new driver mechanism was that > > it was OS-neutral. It should be possible to run the same binary > > driver on all x86 platforms running XFree4 *without* recompiling. > > > > I don't know

Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support)

2000-07-29 Thread Garrett Rooney
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > I thought the whole point of XFree4 new driver mechanism was that > it was OS-neutral. It should be possible to run the same binary > driver on all x86 platforms running XFree4 *without* recompiling. > > I don't know how this driver interacts with the

Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Videocard support)

2000-07-29 Thread Nimrod Mesika
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:59:17PM +0800, Trent Nelson wrote: > On a more technical note, given an accurate port of the kernel > device driver (which would be trivial at best), is there any > reason these Linux OpenGL drivers & associated libraries can't > just be branded as 'Linux' object types a

Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support)

2000-07-29 Thread Trent Nelson
Moving to hackers@, where most discussions regarding the NVIDIA drivers seem to take place lately. Chris BeHanna wrote: > I don't remember if it was this list on which I saw this > discussion, or if it was hackers. Anyway, I looked at xfree86.org > today, and noticed that there is

Re: ANSI compliance, gcc(1) and FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread David Malone
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:51:53AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > In the ANSI Standard (K&R 2e, A7.14 & A7.15) it states that, in the > case of the ``&&'' operator, the right operand is evaluated only if > the left operand evaluates to non-zero, and, for ``||'', the right > operand is evaluated only

ANSI compliance, gcc(1) and FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Ovens
Apologies if this is the wrong list for this question but it seems the best place to get a *definitive* answer. In the ANSI Standard (K&R 2e, A7.14 & A7.15) it states that, in the case of the ``&&'' operator, the right operand is evaluated only if the left operand evaluates to non-zero, and, for