* Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu> [020712 02:25]:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 @ 5:17pm (-0500), Richard Rauch wrote:
> >
> > RR>   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2002/06/17/0000.html
> > RR>
> > RR> (This is a post to the current-users mailing list from back in June.)
> >
> > ...how MI is this code?  I.e., will it work on netbsd/sparc64 w/ the
> > onboard ATI rage pro?
> >
> > all the XFree86 world seems to be stuck on linux/i386
> 
> I thought that we ran XFree86 on non-i386 NetBSD.  (^&
> 
> In any case, you would have to follow the link I cited and ask the guy
> doing the work.  He's working on a ``BSD'' branch of the DRI code (really
> a FreeBSD branch, from what he seemed to say, that will support NetBSD to
> the extent that it doesn't break FreeBSD's support).

> I would have thought that, being kernel changes to the OS, the work should
> be done on an OS CVS branch.  But, maybe it makes sense if you understand
> the problem and DRI (I do not).

It 'just' needs a LKM to be written to let X write to the hardware and bypass
the kernels usual meachanisms for copying stuff around.

FreeBSD's CURRENT has now merged the KLDs with the base system, or so I
hear.

> Is it the right way to solve the problem?  I dunno.

I'd say 'yes' as ISTR the FreeBSD KLD work pushed my framerate on a
Voodoo3 from ~ 2-3fps up to 40-odd.

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