Re: FreeBSD support (again!)

Damian Gerow wrote:

>Thus spake Peter Hunnisett ([email protected]) [30/11/04 21:49]:
>: Well from a TransGaming point of view, we're interested in seeing the 
>: demand before making the effort to produce and test a FreeBSD version 
>: ourselves. Thus far, as you point out, there has only been marginal 
>: scattered interest. If a combined voice were raised we would notice. 
>: Making FreeBSD more "supported" requires either a solid business 
>: opportunity and/or volunters to contribute code.
>
>The impression I've gotten from the FreeBSD community has essentially been
>that there won't be any combined voices until TransGaming has announced
>intention for support.  I'll read this as a conditional intention for
>support, and see what I can rouse from the masses.
>  
>
Ya. Funny how things often look like the chicken and egg problem.

To be honest, I don't have a good feel for the size of the FreeBSD 
"market" for games. Do you?

>: It's possible to get developer support. I have personally made many irc 
>: appeals in #cedega on freenode.net, and even some on this list to get 
>: interest. However, I don't have time to get a FreeBSD machine and devote 
>: time to getting Cedega up and running perfectly.
>
>I can offer you a shell on a remote FreeBSD machine, and possibly even send
>you a full machine, but that still leaves the development time.  I'll see
>what I can do otherwise.
>  
>
A full machine is probably not necessary, but a kind offer. I'm happy to 
help with online debugging if you catch me on #cedega or convince me 
that I should be joining another channel as well.

>: That having been said, TransGaming recently received a FreeBSD patch 
>: from Bruce M Simpson. I committed part of his patch (that big wack of 
>: header portability stuff),  but he hasn't answered the questions I had 
>: with the remaining portions of the patch (one of which was the clone 
>: issue you raised). I have also recently helped Travis Poppe fix a bug in 
>: the FreeBSD Linux emulator so that recent Cedega versions (since 3.0 
>: probably) will run. You can find his work at 
>: http://lickwid.ath.cx/~tlp/cedega/index.html.
>
>Excellent!  I'm glad to hear that, and I'll update my CVS and start over.
>
>: If you have a patch that you'd like to propose, please submit it to the 
>: list and we'll see about getting it going. Don't worry about it being 
>: rough or not perfect. This is very much the case of a journey of a 
>: thousand miles beginning with a single patch/step.
>
>Nope, no patches just yet.  Especially if you're waiting on a response from
>Bruce M Simpson, as chances are he'd provide a better quality patch than
>something from me.
>  
>

Well if you'd like, I can send along his original patch.

>I'll see what I can do to must support from the FreeBSD camp, to get the
>momentum for that first patch/step.
>
>  - Damian
>
>  
>
*Ciao,
Peter
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