Subject: Re: NVIDIA drivers
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org, netbsd@quatriemek.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/09/2002 17:19:53
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:53:53PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> 
> I spent the day digging through NVidia, FreeBSD and NetBSD sources, and as
> long as I'm not a too dumb hacker, the driver is not too FreeBSD specific.
> 
> Of course, there is a lot of issues, but they mainly involve memory
> management. One of them is the use of FreeBSD's contigmalloc, which
> doesn't seem to have an equivalent in NetBSD. 

That's not actually true -- you can use bus_dmamem_alloc to get contiguous
memory.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud