Svante Signell wrote: > Dear Noveau developers, > > Some years ago, around 2000-2002 there was a guy in New Zealand, David, > working on Nvidia drivers, see the message at the Utah-GLX mailing list > archive from April 2002: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=612267&forum_id=3646 > > >> hi I have started a project to build a NVRM witch will >> hopefully will give as the frist open source high performance >> dma nvidia driver >> >> first i have to build the NVRM this handles a lot of work to >> make the chip run and grate"s an unified interface to the >> hardware so you can have 2 or move clients torking >> to the hardware at the same time eg. a dvd player a X draw text >> and a opengl game . it also handles deferencs between >> the chips NV04 , NV05 , NV10 , NV20 and so on >> once i have done anuf of the NVRM working to support >> X and glx i will start on the X and glx clients >> >> my site for this project is http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~lexos >> i will update as i go >> >> now its just the hard work :) >> > > Unfortunately the web page is no longer available and the person does > not seem to work on nvidia drivers. Anyway, by the time I downloaded the > source code and since there now exist a project for Nvidia 3d drivers, > maybe parts of the source code can be of use for the Noveau developers. > According to the code and some result files DMA and context switching > seems to be functional. Also, some header files can be useful. > Unfortunately the code is uncommented has no licence information (except > for one nv03 header file), no README etc. Maybe the mailing list > archives of utah-glx can be of use to find out more about this person if > needed. Nevertheless, I can send the zip file with the sources to any of > you who are interested. The file size is around 160kB, so it would > probably not be accepted as an attachment to this mail. > > Hello,
Yes, I think we have it already (nvsrc.zip right ?). Thanks anyway ! Stephane ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
