On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:52:28AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >Alex Deucher dixit: > >>> >and two for bsd >>> > >>> >1. bsd monolithic >>> >2. bsd-core modular as above > >>why not just let the kernel provide the drm? Most if not all recent >>linux and bsd kernels (last few years) have drm support. The dri and >>ddx will adapt depending on what's available in the kernel. > >For the record, "BSD" seems to mean FreeBSD exclusively here >(and maybe DragonFly, which relates to FreeBSD like MirOS >relates to OpenBSD, namely being a fork). > >I've tried to build DRI/DRM on OpenBSD and MirOS for XF86 4.4; >I eventually got DRI working but it just blanked the screen >instead of using Mesa when it didn't find a DRM, which is a >K.O. criterium, thus I haven't looked deeper into it. > >The DRM use FreeBSD-ish <bsd.kmod.mk> whereas OpenBSD and derivates >have <bsd.lkm.mk>, and from a short glimpse on the code I've >got the impression it's non-trivial to support OpenBSD too. >I'm not too experienced in kernel programming though.
That's pretty much the same conclusion I came to. >I think we _can_ load kernel modules though, I've played with >a VMware 3 module some time (but VMware didn't want to play >with me, so I left). > >If that "screen blank, no Mesa" issue is fixed, you could >probably enable DRI builds on OpenBSD and MirOS, too. I >haven't looked into it on 4.5 yet. It only makes sense if working DRM modules are available though. David _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
