Alan Hourihane wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:39:48PM -0700, Jens Owen wrote:
> > Eric Anholt wrote:
> > >
> > > Just to update you all on what I'm doing: I have just finished getting
> > > some of the 4.2.0 patches and drm-kmod (DRM kernel modules in the
> > > FreeBSD port/package system) updates into the FreeBSD ports collection.
> > > At this point I think the biggest priority for FreeBSD is getting mesa
> > > 4.0 working, hopefully in the os-templated form. I've got 3dfx working
> > > great, but ATI cards were just giving me a black window last I tried.
> > > I'll see what Alan's updates in the non-templated version have done and
> > > compare the templated version to them and to current linux source.
> > > After that I'll take a look at drmcommand (which sounds like it won't be
> > > too big of a deal to support, though I haven't looked at the code yet)
> > > and then tcl (again, haven't looked, but if it's just new ioctls it
> > > shouldn't be a problem and should be possible to roll into drm-kmod).
> >
> > Eric,
> >
> > Thanks for the update. You have the right priorites from what I can
> > tell. I didn't realize that FreeBSD was so far behind the DRI trunk. I
> > thought it had Mesa 4 since Alan had merged FreeBSD support into the
> > trunk.
> >
> Jens,
>
> XFree86 4.2.0 was merged to the trunk with Mesa 3.4.2 which had
> the BSD kernel modules, then the mesa-4-0-branch was merged to the trunk
> and the BSD modules were not updated. That's what I've fixed, although
> I haven't tested them yet. Although I'm surprised that they would
> need any work at all, especially the tdfx driver.
> Nothing ever changes at the kernel level for that one, and the kernel
> module that was in 4.2.0 should work for the new mesa 4.0 code.
Sounds like FreeBSD is actually pretty close...
> I've committed patches already to compile the drmcommand branch on
> BSD although, again not tested yet.
Great.
> It seems that sourceforge's
> mailing lists are having problems and the CVS message hasn't shown
> up.
Okay, thanks for the heads up. Maybe we should send a short e-mail to
devel notifying when we update until this works again.
> I'll try and spend some time testing the BSD code this week.
Great.
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