[openbeos] Re: driver interface question
- From: "Bruno van Dooren" <bruno_van_dooren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:10:43 +0200
yes and no.
the nvidia driver is something i used to work on in my free-time coding
hours, with priority on the input server work. the result is that it did not
proceed very rapidly.
luckily Rudolf Cornelissen - who has also created the matrox and neomagic
driver - volunteered to take on the nvidia project. I am very gratefull for
this, since now I don't have to feel guilty about the slow progress.
I am converting the matrox and neomagic makefiles to Jam files, after which
they can be added to the OpenBeOS source tree. the same will be done for the
nvidia driver, after it is ready to be released.
to be really honest, the progress can't do much else but improve :-)
kind regards,
Bruno.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vassilis Perantzakis" <vaspervnp@xxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:01 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: driver interface question
> Bruno, a question out of subject? Are you still working on a Nvidia
> driver? If so how is it moving along?
>
> Vassilis Perantzakis
> The BeOSMax Team.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruno van Dooren
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:13 PM
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] driver interface question
>
>
> for some time now i have been wondering why the declaration of the
> driver
> interface posix calls (open, close, ioctl, ...) are split over 3 header
> files? (i don't know by heart which 3, and i don't have a BeOS system
> nearby
> at this moment)
>
> wouldn't it make much more sense to have all those calls combined in 1
> header file?
> not to mention the fact that the BeBook does not contain information on
> how
> to actually call and use device drivers.
>
> i learned it by going through the examples a year ago, but still...
>
> of course i don't know very much about posix, so my question could be a
> little silly, but does anyone know the 'why' of this?
>
> kind regards,
> Bruno.
>
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