[Xorg] The big multiconsole nasty

[Adam Jackson]

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On Friday 09 July 2004 07:53, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > How many of those binary-only device drivers are truly
> > platform-independent and don't require special kernel modules or other
> > platform-dependent bits? (I admit, I've only tried the Nvidia binary
> > driver - I don't know about any others that may exist.)
>
> Roughly, all of them _execpt_ the Nvidia driver. 8-). All of the driver
> that are part of the XFree86/Xorg tree should be binary portable, at
> least for 2D stuff.

That's not the question though.  The question is about binary-only device 
drivers, the ones that aren't in the X tree.

Offhand, I believe the binary modules from ATI, Matrox, and PowerVR are 
x86-only and have a kernel component, which makes them not 
platform-independent.

- - ajax
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