Re: missing code in Darwin
Re: missing code in Darwin
- Subject: Re: missing code in Darwin
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:52:03 -0400 (EDT)
On 6 Jun, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
> > What about XNU? We are mired at Darwin-8.3 at this time. I have
> > posted a solution to the alleged problems.
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> > thread_id=9813956&forum_id=6042
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> > thread_id=9812396&forum_id=6042
>
> We have nothing to announce regarding xnu for Intel at this time.
That would then imply that we are in reality mired at Darwin-7 at this
time. Actually, Darwin-7.2 works ok on a commodate Opteron machine.
Here is a screenshot.
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/today2.png
That is 100% free software. Testing with glxgears confirms that MesaGL
is performing about twice as fast as on a comparable 32-bit CPU,
although some other tasks are clearly not yet optimized. The machines
are otherwise roughly identical. If anyone can think of other
interesting benchmarks, be sure and let me know while I have access to
this Opteron machine. BTW, Pymol rocks on the thing.
Moreover, I would encourage the development of alternative drivers, and
the porting of the drivers from Darwin-7.2, which is free and open
source software to Darwin-8, which is not. That would fix the problem.
If you are aware of such FOSS drivers, which are already in existence,
please alert me so that they can be included in The GNU-Darwin
Distribution. We are especially in need of ethernet card drivers and
SATA drivers. Together, we can make Darwin a 100% free software platform
for the duration.
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
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