Kernel Graphics Interface for BSDs

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 18, 2003 @12:28AM from the work-in-a-pretty-world dept.

BSD Forums writes "KGI, or Kernel Graphics Interface, provides a framework that allows full 3D accellerated video card drivers to compile on different platforms without any modification to the drivers themselves. At the moment of writing, the Linux target is rather stable, and the core is being ported to FreeBSD and OpenBSD. In (Free)BSD implementation, the board entity is a full FreeBSD device driver, respecting the newbus interfaces, connected to the PCI core and responsible for dispatching the resources to the KGI underlying clock, ramdac and chipset drivers (as they exist in the Linux implementation). The board driver probe/attach routines detect the chipset, prepare the kgi display information and call the kgim functions to powerup the KGI drivers."

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Re:It's fucking dying by beefdart · 2003-08-18 00:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Holy CRAP! I have never seen this before!!

I guess its time to go to work and quickly migrate our 350 production FreeBSD machines to something not dead...

Thank you so much for telling me, all this time I thought I was using the fastest, most stable OS for x86, but it turns out a fat-gay penguin must have stomped on my OS.

Choke on it and die you Linux-Halfwit.