Re: Nouveau for FreeBSD

[Martin Peres <martin.peres-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>]

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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