Nouveau - Jan 2009 - [Bug 19644] New: FreeBSD port of kernel-side code

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19644

           Summary: FreeBSD port of kernel-side code
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/nouveau
        AssignedTo: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: h1web at dodgit.com
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Hello!

I was wondering whether any of you guys are planning to port the kernelspace
part of the nouveau driver to FreeBSD.
This is really not a lot of code, and if this was ported to FreeBSD, the whole
*BSD and Nouveau community would benefit from it.
I believe, that this is not an impossible or extremely hard job, please note
that my kernel knowledge is vastly limited though.
However, since official x64 drivers by nVidia aren't likely to be released
anytime soon, this would be a great thing to have on FreeBSD, because the
'nv'
driver in Xorg is a pain to use.


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--- Comment #1 from Pekka Paalanen <pq at iki.fi>  2009-01-18 12:01:48 PST
---
There are a few buts here. None of the active Nouveau developers are working on
any BSD. There are few people, who are porting DRM in general and some drivers
to various BSDs, but it is not a small task. The Nouveau linux-specific part of
the code might be small, but the general linux-specific DRM infrastructure is
not. And things will get worse with e.g. kernel mode setting. The whole
graphics stack revolution is primarily on Linux, and the very few BSD devels
are trying their best to keep up.

If you want it to happen sooner than later (if ever), lend a hand, and come to
#nouveau and #dri-devel irc channels. The BSD devels there could tell you what
is needed.


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--- Comment #2 from Henrik Friedrichsen <h1web at dodgit.com>  2009-01-18
14:20:52 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> There are a few buts here. None of the active Nouveau developers are
working on
> any BSD. There are few people, who are porting DRM in general and some
drivers
> to various BSDs, but it is not a small task. The Nouveau linux-specific
part of
> the code might be small, but the general linux-specific DRM infrastructure
is
> not. And things will get worse with e.g. kernel mode setting. The whole
> graphics stack revolution is primarily on Linux, and the very few BSD
devels
> are trying their best to keep up.
> 
> If you want it to happen sooner than later (if ever), lend a hand, and come
to
> #nouveau and #dri-devel irc channels. The BSD devels there could tell you
what
> is needed.
> 
Ok, please excuse my lacking knowledge.
How is 'radeonhd' able to run on so many platforms and why doesn't
nouveau?
They apparently don't rely on kernel/os specific code, but how can they
achieve
the same goal then?


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--- Comment #3 from Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>  2009-01-18
14:37:13 PST ---
radeonhd was a driver born out of some corporate agreement, and there probably
was a requirement was that it ran without a kernel module (this all imo).

nouveau was born for very different reasons, and doing a full driver does
require a kernel module. So to avoid all sorts of nasty special code paths
(which are bothersome to maintain and potentially buggy) the project leader
decided to require a kernel module. This has been the case from day 1 as far as
i know.


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Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #4 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
It appears that this bug report has laid dormant for quite a while. Sorry we
haven't gotten to it. Since we fix bugs all the time, chances are pretty
good
that your issue has been fixed with the latest software. Please give it a shot.
(Linux kernel 3.10.7, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.9, mesa 9.1.6, or their git
versions.) If upgrading to the latest isn't an option for you, your
distro's
bugzilla is probably the right destination for your bug report.

In an effort to clean up our bug list, we're pre-emptively closing all bugs
that haven't seen updates since 2011. If the original issue remains, please
make sure to provide fresh info, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/
for what we need to see, and re-open this one.

Thanks,

The Nouveau Team

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