Subject: Re: Quick question regarding the GENERIC kernel
To: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@bsdprojects.net>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/08/2006 01:03:18
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Hello,

On Nov 8, 2006, at 00:53, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:

> Salut,
>
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:51:26PM -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>> Don't expect any visible benefit though, you won't get any hardware 3d
>> acceleration out of it as long as nobody ports the kernel part of DRI
>> to NetBSD. If you don't have hardware that's unsupported by XFree86 
>> 4.5
>> then I'd strongly recommend to use NetBSD's X.
>
> Please note that preliminary support for DRI exists, but I didn't have
> time to port bsd-core DRI yet. My patches were against pre-3.0 NetBSD
> but should still work on current versions.

If you have something that works or can be made to work with 
(relatively) little trouble please post patches.

have fun
Michael
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