Re: New nvidia driver obstacle
Jonas Sundstr闣 wrote:
> Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> wrote:
> ...
>
>>It's interesting but it looks like he's basing his code on the old
>>UTAH
>>GLX code, so I'm not sure if he'll be able to support anything newer
>>than the GeForce1 gpu.
>
>
> I think he explains this in the entry of March 3'rd. I believe
> he wanted to start from a combination of parts known to
> work together, on BeOS, and take small steps forward.
>
> The posix-but-not-quite-unix platforms are clearly at a
> disadvantage, in that we can't just recompile X & Co.
> and be done. The latest everything compiles on Linux.
> But we're not Linux. :I
> </rant>
>
>>It would be great if nVidia could release the specs
>>for their old cards, but given their track record it's quite
>>unlikely. You can always get an ATI card :-)
>
>
> Are ATI any better at releasing spec?
>
> ...
>
>>I used to run BeOS 4.5 as my main desktop for a while
>>and there are some ideas from BeOS that might be
>>adapted to DragonFly. I'm thinking rich metadata mainly
>>and some parts of their API.
>
>
> Yeah, the filesystem goodies of BeOS just make sense,
> at least for desktop use. I believe POSIX extended attributes
> could be used similarly, except they're untyped, (I think), which
> complicates things, and there's no live indexing facility. Perhaps
> the journaling mechanism will allow for wiretapping filesystem
> metadata, to allow for stuff similar to BeOS's (live-) queries,
> MacOS X' Spotlight, Linux' Beagle and whatever Microsoft
> come up with in place of WinFS.
>
> /Jonas Sundstr闣. www.kirilla.com
>
Wonder if 'born-again-F/OSS' IBM might GPL/BSDL/similar license
the Warp metadata model and SOM as they have JFS?
Bill
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