From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francisco Jerez Subject: Re: Older Nvidia hardware driver state Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:48:50 +0100 Message-ID: <877h32c4bh.fsf@riseup.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0720848190==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Patrick Baggett's message of "Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:34:35 -0600") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: Patrick Baggett Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org --===============0720848190== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --==-=-= Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Patrick Baggett writes: > Hi all! > Hi, > I read that the older Nvidia hardware (maybe < GF8) is in a different driver > and no longer maintained. Is that the case? Yes and no. If you're talking about the 3d drivers, I've done pretty much nothing as maintainer of the nv04-nv20 driver in the last few months, and the same goes for the nv30-nv40 driver, mostly because of lack of time of the people involved. If you're talking about 2d, the situation is considerably better. And of course there's hardware-specific code different for each card generation, but IMHO calling them different separate drivers would be wrong, there's a significant amount of shared code. > I have a GeForce 4000 MX that I'm trying to get to work on > debian/sparc64, which I admit is a bit of longshot, but I was > wondering how much effort it would take to even get the driver to > build, and then to function. I'm very proficient in C but don't have > much experience writing drivers. > It *should* be functional to a large extent, it's just that it might have bred a few bugs while we weren't looking :). In any case your help is very welcome if you know how to program, feel free to address any questions to this mailing list or to the #nouveau IRC channel. > Patrick Baggett > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau --=-=-=-- --==-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk7BACIACgkQg5k4nX1Sv1uDGAD+Kv7G1+BSwrkblEtg2UTc+iAo fz7ZK4R1RFiuJgG49nUA/0FE7BbVc4OBjb+oI1U2c0blxZ4gaJeq9Rzvtcm18Qbt =SpQw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==-=-=-- --===============0720848190== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau --===============0720848190==--