Re: Nouveau for FreeBSD

From: Pierre Moreau <pierre.morrow-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
To: Martin Peres <martin.peres-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Curtis Hamilton"
	<hamiltcl-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>,
	nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org,
	"François Tigeot"
	<ftigeot-axE+tVEjw0xg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>,
	"Jean-Sébastien Pédron"
	<jean-sebastien.pedron-DvcofrTywwxWj0EZb7rXcA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Nouveau for FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 10:58:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151104095833.GA3908@Normandy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5639C587.2010904-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>

Wasn't there some work being done by François Tigeot or Jean-Sébastien Pédron
to port Nouveau to DragonFlyBSD/FreeBSD? Or at least they were talking about porting it
at XDC 2014, no idea what the current status is.

Pierre

PS: Looking at François' slides from this year XDC, it seems there isn't much
progress about it.

On 10:44 AM - Nov 04 2015, Martin Peres wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/11/15 10:38, C Bergström wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Martin Peres <martin.peres@free.fr> wrote:
> >>On 04/11/15 09:08, cbergstrom@pathscale.com wrote:
> >>
> >>Is anyone actually and or actively working on this?
> >>Github.com/pathscale/pscnv is totally bitrot but waaay more portable base.
> >>Nouveau made hard Linux assumptions that will be difficult to overcome
> >>afaik.
> >>
> >>
> >>As pointed out by Ilia, this is not true anymore. Nouveau can also partially
> >>run in the userspace, the hard dependencies on Linux have been abstracted.
> >>
> >>Also, pscnv does not support the newest GPUs and receives no further
> >>development because everything it provided is now provided by Nouveau.
> >I did mention pscnv was bitrot, but I'm not yet convinced that some of
> >the key things which are implemented in nouveau were done to a
> >comparable level of quality (would need to evaluate and don't have
> >time/interest)
> >-------
> >To bring this conversation back on track - where would someone start
> >*exactly* to port this to another OS? What kernel dependencies are
> >there?
> 
> This needs to be ported to the other OS, along with drm and ttm (which I
> believe have already been ported to all the BSDs):
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~darktama/nouveau/tree/lib/include/nvif/os.h
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