On Die, 2002-01-22 at 11:59, Markus Schaber wrote: > Thomas Steffen wrote: > > > > Thank you for this information, so it seems we can't go this way. (I > > > currently consider it impossible to port the whole XFree86 to our > > > operating system, as we don't have anything in common with unix like > > > OSes (and one can consider e. G. OS/2 unix like compared to plurix). > > > > You might want to have a look at the Linux kernel framebuffer support. > > AFAIK the drivers are rather simple, and "down there" it is not very > > UNIX like either. If you use vesafb, for example, you should be able > > to use nearly every graphics card with only one driver (assuming you > > have a PC style BIOS). > > We already have working native drivers for VGA, some S3 chips, Vesa > 1.2/2.0 linear framebuffer and some Radeon chips. > > As we have a rather slim API, it is not much work to develop a basic > driver. > > Our problem is that we would like to make use of the acceleration and of > some 3D functions (using a subset of opengl), and for this we need > documentation.
It's a long term goal of the DRI project to make at least some parts of the infrastructure as independent as possible from a specific OS or windowing system. Maybe you could help improve towards that goal and benefit of the infrastructure? DRI development is discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
