Kernel Graphics Interface for BSDs

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."

Re:It's fucking dying

[beefdart]

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.

Re:YHBT

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

and this is the first time you noticed the BSD is dying troll?

Troll me once, shame on you. Troll me twice, shame on me?
-- WWSS (What Would Scottie Say)

Re:YHBT

[beefdart]

sometimes I just get bored.

Re:It's fucking dying

[beefdart]

> Solaris x86

I am not even going to dignify this with a response, buy a sparc, then repost.

Re:It's fucking dying

[pjwalen]

why is this almost identicle to his previous post regarding.... NetWare is dying. [slashdot.org]

Old Hat

[GiMP]

KGI is old hat.. I used it for Linux back in the days of Linux 2.2 when I was experimenting with dual-head X11 (Xinerama didn't exist yet).

There was a nasty skirmish on the lkml about whether to include KGI into the kernel or not. Linus rejected it and the Linux framebuffer you know now was included.

GGI/KGI only useful for 3D acceleration on BSD?

[ThreeFarthingStone]

I knew of GGI before (though I've never used it), but not of KGI. Currently I rely on XFree86, unless I'm using Mac OS.

I'm not sure if this is right, but GGI can draw to X11, toolkits like GDK/Qt/FOX can draw to X11, X11 "XGGI" can draw to GGI, GGI can draw to KGI, and GGI can draw to some "svgalib" which draws to Linux framebuffer. A bit confusing, but it seems that GGI can probably be avoided unless one doesn't like X11 or needs to have 3D acceleration on BSD.

Re:GGI/KGI only useful for 3D acceleration on BSD?

[GiMP]

Before XFree4.0, GGI+framebuffer (KGI or FBdev)+XGGI was the only solution free solution for multihead in Linux, and the ONLY solution for what is now Xinerama (continous display).

wscons

[vesamies]

Ok, sounds nice, but why replace wscons with this?

zerg

[Lord Omlette]

When I saw the title, I clicked through to the story thinking it was about an API that Microsoft had published to let developers control the Blue Screen of Death!

*sigh* back to work...

Re:the real problem

[beefdart]

BSD is Dying??

http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters

I guess Linux-Kiddies can't read.

Choke on it and die.