Re: Cromwell patches for FreeBSD support

Hello Michael,

* Michael Steil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally, I was looking at NetBSD during the last few days, but it
> seems to lack graphic text mode (VESA-like framebuffer) support on
> i386, so I changed my goals into getting a text mode up first.

Well, framebuffering is a default on a lot of platforms that NetBSD
supports (mac68k, playstation2, etc) so it shouldn't be that hard to
build on i386 I'd guess. There's one disadvantage of framebuffering with
wscons; you can't use multiple terminals (and X11) as far as I know, so
fixing text mode would be a real advantage in this case.

> Perhaps it would be a good idea to motivate the community to port (i.e.
> rewrite) the "forcedeth" open source nvnet driver for *BSD (as nForce
> PC users also need it and the open source driver is said to be a lot
> better than the closed source one). Maybe the Xbox Linux Project we
> could give away a free Linux- and FreeBSD-enabled Xbox as a bounty; but
> I am sure that we could lend one to someone interested. This is also
> information you could add to your news text. :-)

I'm already writing a spec for Rink. I hope to finish it by the end of
the week. I already mailed with the Forcedeth maintainer (Manfred
Spraul). He also has a spec but couldn't give it to us because of some
European copyright law.

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <[email protected]>

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