Subject: Re: Excuse my ignorance/Heresy
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Thomas E. Spanjaard <tgen@netphreax.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 07/26/2006 13:27:29
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Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:08:45PM +1000, Glenn Barry wrote:
>>My question is what is the feasability of porting the NetBSD USB drivers 
>>over to Irix?
> The NetBSD USB stack has been ported to various things, it is certainly 
> possible if you have IRIX kernel source.

It might be possible without the source, since there's an SGI device 
drivers development guide.

> Of course we would prefer if you'd help to improve video/audio support
> for SGI hardware in NetBSD ;-) [which actually might be a simpler task]

I guess that would amount to better XFree86/X.org support of SGI 
hardware and a hardware OpenGL library (with certain NetBSD kernel 
provisions for hardware access).

Cheers,
-- 
         Thomas E. Spanjaard
         tgen@netphreax.net

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