Subject: Re: Excuse my ignorance/Heresy
To: Thomas E. Spanjaard <tgen@netphreax.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 07/26/2006 14:42:51
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> Martin Husemann wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:08:45PM +1000, Glenn Barry wrote:
>>> My question is what is the feasability of porting the NetBSD USB drivers
>>> over to Irix?
>> The NetBSD USB stack has been ported to various things, it is certainly
>> possible if you have IRIX kernel source.
>
> It might be possible without the source, since there's an SGI device drivers
> development guide.
>
>> Of course we would prefer if you'd help to improve video/audio support
>> for SGI hardware in NetBSD ;-) [which actually might be a simpler task]
>
> I guess that would amount to better XFree86/X.org support of SGI hardware and
> a hardware OpenGL library (with certain NetBSD kernel provisions for hardware
> access).
Another 'interesting' project would be a COMPAT_IRIX to allow
running of IRIX binaries (such as an accelerated X server) under
NetBSD...
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