On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, George Michaelson wrote:

> X11 is going to do a mid rev bump around December of this year, to 4.4.0
>
> 	http://www.xfree86.org/releaseplans.html
>
> I check the cvs logs on XFree86 daily, and the rate of change has been pretty
> constant for the last few months, with *some* stuff in DRI.
>
> 	http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes.html
>
> I don't think there is a particularly 'best' time to try and do a DRI port, but
> I'm not sure just before a rev/feature freeze is close. (arguably it is, because
> general focus on lockdown makes well-formed patches easier to put in)
>
> FreeBSD has DRI for i386. Its been discussed in the past about how helpful this
> is, or is not for a MI focussed BSD requirement, given the FB/NB divergeances
> these days.
>
> NO question, NB (l)users like me would like DRI. Its finding people with
> skills/motivation ...

DRI works on NetBSD! I went and built the module from the DRI checkout
by hand. It had to be force loaded, with "-f", because there seems to
be something wrong with the LKM versioning scheme: it complained that
module is <some random word>, kernel is <some other random words>,
when both should have been NetBSD-1.6ZC. I was able to run glxgears
*really* *fast*. After I'd installed the second processor, the machine
locked up before I could log in via xdm. Without the LKM, it's stable.
Nevertheless, I intend to try again, and make a full report once
things settle down. Erik, this is with a Matrox 550. I also have a
Voodoo3 PCI card, and that module builds, too. Some of the other's
didn't build at all with gcc-3.3.1. Erik's web page is still:

    http://www.canuck.com/~reide/netbsd/dri/


Frederick