Patrick Baggett <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all! > Hi,
> I read that the older Nvidia hardware (maybe < GF8) is in a different driver > and no longer maintained. Is that the case? Yes and no. If you're talking about the 3d drivers, I've done pretty much nothing as maintainer of the nv04-nv20 driver in the last few months, and the same goes for the nv30-nv40 driver, mostly because of lack of time of the people involved. If you're talking about 2d, the situation is considerably better. And of course there's hardware-specific code different for each card generation, but IMHO calling them different separate drivers would be wrong, there's a significant amount of shared code. > I have a GeForce 4000 MX that I'm trying to get to work on > debian/sparc64, which I admit is a bit of longshot, but I was > wondering how much effort it would take to even get the driver to > build, and then to function. I'm very proficient in C but don't have > much experience writing drivers. > It *should* be functional to a large extent, it's just that it might have bred a few bugs while we weren't looking :). In any case your help is very welcome if you know how to program, feel free to address any questions to this mailing list or to the #nouveau IRC channel. > Patrick Baggett > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
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