On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:10:10AM -0700, Erik Reid wrote:
> 
> Hi there. For those that are interested, I've slowly been working on adding DRI
> support for NetBSD in the DRI project's CVS repository.  A bunch, but not all, of
> this work got imported into 4.3.0.  Now that 4.3.0 is in xsrc tree, I think we
> should bring in what's left of the changes to make it work properly, since there's
> not much that's missing.
> 
> I've put together a fairly large patch which makes it all compile and work on
> my NetBSD/i386 1.6P system with a matrox g450.  I haven't tested it on any other
> cards, but Eric Anholt did test his cards out to see if they worked, and they did.
> I believe that includes a radeon and an r128.  I have no idea if the pcigart stuff
> even has a hope of working at all currently.
> 
> There are a few outstanding issues that I can think of off hand:
> 1) kernel module is not automatically built/installed by a 'make install' in
> 	xsrc/xfree/xc
> 2) kernel module is not automatically loaded by the X server
> 3) locators.h is not present but is included by <dev/pci/pcivar.h>
> 	(I've just been touching it for my builds, but that's obviously not the best :)
> 4) I have no idea if this will work on alpha or any other port with pci. I don't have
> 	the hardware.
> 5) I haven't actually tested the linux compat portion of this.  I just have to build
> 	some X 4.3.0 linux binaries, but haven't gotten around to it.
> 
> I can't think of anything else at the moment, but I'm sure there's more :)
> 
> Anyway, the patch is at http://www.canuck.com/~reide/netbsd/dri/netbsd-dri.diff.gz
> 
> Feedback, please. :)

Do you think this has a chance of working on a Riva TNT2? Or would I need to
perform the awful (sorry, but it really is) hack to load the FreeBSD kernel
module for nvidia cards to make it happen?

Thanks,
-Sean

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