Sign me up as a tester, when the time comes! (I have a TNT2 Ultra 32M.)
Matt
Nick Triantos wrote:
>
> We'll be happy to work with people to get our code up and running, but it's
> important to note that our drivers do not use DRI, we use our own direct
> rendering mechanism. There are exactly 3 source files which need to be
> ported from linux to freebsd, then after that, it should be fairly simple to
> get all of our drivers running on FreeBSD. Again, we do intend to do this,
> we've just been swamped and haven't yet had bandwidth to do this work.
>
> Regards,
> -Nick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 7:18 AM
> > To: Dennis Wong; Nick Triantos
> > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Doug Rabson
> > Subject: Re: FW: GeForce 6600 driver
> >
> >
> > 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,
> >
> > --
> > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and
> > systemadministrator
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> VIA Net.Works The Netherlands
> > BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl
> > Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil...
> >
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