On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:56:34 -0500 James Tanis <jtanis_at_pycoder.org> wrote: > I'm not really sure what the point is. Develop a FreeBSD native module > to support a linux-emulated DRM/X/etc? While the FreeBSD module is > obviously necessary, ATI's X11/XOrg driver should be extremely > portable seeing as how X's API is the same across platforms.. The X API and ABI was designed to allow to write once and run everywhere (assuming the instruction set of the CPU is the same). The reason why you see kernel modules from NVidia and ATI is that they need features the DRI part of the XServer isn't able to deliver. The only thing what needs to be ported is the kernel module. If I understand it correctly, Chris is porting the kernel module. So you can't talk about linux-emulated DRM, since there are no linux specific parts involved (except for the little utilities which are responsible to activate or show certain aspects of the driver). Bye, Alexander. -- Reboot America. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7Received on Tue Dec 27 2005 - 22:42:13 UTC
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