Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.2 snapshot available (was Re: Successful NetBSD)
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/04/2001 15:01:00
AFAIK kernel support is required for DRI.  NetBSD doesn't currently
have any AGP specific support.

-Andrew

From: "Richard Rauch" <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>

> My understanding is that DRI stands for ``Direct Rendering Interface''
(or
> Infrastructure?).  It is an enhancement for Mesa support to directly
> access the hardware to accelerate the OpenGL implementation.  It is
not
> ``-current for XFree86''; it is a specific feature that was present in
4.0
> (for GNU/LINUX), and is apparently now supported on FreeBSD.
>
> Is my understanding on this point wrong?  Or are you saying that DRI
works
> on NetBSD, now?  My understanding is that it does not.  But we can
> certainly use XFree86 4.x with NetBSD, without this one feature.
>
> I'd love to hear that 4.0.2 with NetBSD 1.5 (even if only -current) is
a
> different story, w.r.t. DRI, than 4.0 was for NetBSD.
>
>
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking
about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu
>
>