[Nouveau] (Free)BSD support?

[Dave Airlie]

>>
>> On 06/11/14 19:05, Chris wrote:
>> > Greetings,
>> >  I remember Nouveau being in the ports tree on FreeBSD some
>> > time ago. As I see it isn't there now. I was wondering if anyone
>> > else might have, or be working on a BSD branch. Or might be able
>> > to provide some insight on getting a branch of Nouveau running
>> > on FreeBSD.
>> >
>> > Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
>> >
>> Afaik currently there is no port for (Free)BSD.
>>
>> On the positive side nouveau's current infrastructure ("core", interface
>> "nvif" and "drm glue") will make things quite easy for anyone familiar
>> with BSD's equivalent of core drm,ttm,etc. One only needs to port the
>> "drm glue".
>>
>> Iirc Jean-Sébastien (Cc'd) did mention nouveau + FreeBSD at XDC,
>> although I'm not sure what his current plans are. Perhaps he might be
>> able to give you some ideas, if you're willing to give it a go ?
> Thank you very much for the informative reply, Emil.
> I'm happy to make the investment (creating the FreeBSD port).
> I currently already maintain several FreeBSD ports. So it's not
> all that unfamiliar. :)
> I just didn't want to "start from scratch" if I didn't need to. :)
> I give a closer look, and see what I can find. Maybe Jean-Sébastien
> will also have something to say.
>
> Thank you again, Emil, for the reply.
>

I think you missed the point,

this is a kernel driver that needs porting, not just a userspace driver,
there are no userspace drivers anymore. porting the X.org userspace
driver is required but not sufficient.

Dave.