On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:16:00AM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> >> Framebuffer devices, etc...
>
> Actually this discussion is moot: there has been an
> important advance in porting KGI to FreeBSD.
>
> Check the developers list archives in
> http://kgi.sourceforge.net/
>
> For those lazy: i
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Kevin D.Wooten wrote:
>
>
> > i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules,
> > again)?
>
>
> I was under the impression that the subsystem is there ( /usr/src/sys/dev/fb
> ? ). Maybe not the specific accelerated drivers, but the basics look there.
>
>> Framebuffer devices, etc...
Actually this discussion is moot: there has been an
important advance in porting KGI to FreeBSD.
Check the developers list archives in
http://kgi.sourceforge.net/
For those lazy: it's not here yet, but FreeBSD 5.0 will
have kick ass graphics!
cheers,
Pedro.
> i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules,
> again)?
I was under the impression that the subsystem is there ( /usr/src/sys/dev/fb
? ). Maybe not the specific accelerated drivers, but the basics look there.
I will say the video mode selection looks weak though,
On 09-Nov-2001 Craig R wrote:
> code and build it straight into the base OS. A linux compatability layer
> could be made (similar idea as the existing binary support) so that more
> applications would run, but the system itself would be independant. The idea
Why write yet another interface?
a. FreeBSD and
Linux are independant projects and should remain as such.
-- Craig
>From: Vladimir Kushnir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?
>
>Hi all,
>
>A couple of questi
Hi all,
A couple of questions here.
i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules,
again)? They work quite nice under Linux for multimedia apps, and it's a
pity we haven't got anything of this kind (TNT2 based v/cards with HW
accelleration, for one). Did anybody try to do
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