Re: New nvidia driver obstacle

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonas Sundström wrote:

> Miguel Mendez <flynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
>
> > It's interesting but it looks like he's basing his code on the old 
> > UTAH
> > GLX code, so I'm not sure if he'll be able to support anything newer
> > than the GeForce1 gpu.
>
>
> I think he explains this in the entry of March 3'rd. I believe
> he wanted to start from a combination of parts known to 
> work together, on BeOS, and take small steps forward. 
>
> The posix-but-not-quite-unix platforms are clearly at a 
> disadvantage, in that we can't just recompile X & Co.
> and be done. The latest everything compiles on Linux. 
> But we're not Linux. :I
> </rant>
>
> > It would be great if nVidia could release the specs 
> > for their old cards, but given their track record it's quite
> > unlikely. You can always get an ATI card :-)
>
>
> Are ATI any better at releasing spec?
>
>  ...
>
> > I used to run BeOS 4.5 as my main desktop for a while 
> > and there are some ideas from BeOS that might be 
> > adapted to DragonFly. I'm thinking rich metadata mainly 
> > and some parts of their API.
>
>
> Yeah, the filesystem goodies of BeOS just make sense,
> at least for desktop use. I believe POSIX extended attributes
> could be used similarly, except they're untyped, (I think), which 
> complicates things, and there's no live indexing facility. Perhaps 
> the journaling mechanism will allow for wiretapping filesystem 
> metadata, to allow for stuff similar to BeOS's (live-) queries, 
> MacOS X' Spotlight, Linux' Beagle and whatever Microsoft 
> come up with in place of WinFS.
>
> /Jonas Sundström.                  www.kirilla.com

Wonder if 'born-again-F/OSS' IBM might GPL/BSDL/similar license
the Warp metadata model and SOM as they have JFS?

Bill