Comments on: In Other BSDs for 2015/04/25 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/04/25/in-other-bsds-for-20150425/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: BSDfan https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/04/25/in-other-bsds-for-20150425/comment-page-1/#comment-341685 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:47:15 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15998#comment-341685 What about wrapper for nVidia binary blob for FreeBSD?
There was a such project some time ago: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/~corecode/nvidia.git
Porting nouveau is waste of time IMHO.

]]> By: brynet https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/04/25/in-other-bsds-for-20150425/comment-page-1/#comment-341683 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:58:29 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15998#comment-341683 OpenBSD on amd64, and other architectures with similar MMU features, already use the “No eXecute” bit.

]]> By: brynet https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/04/25/in-other-bsds-for-20150425/comment-page-1/#comment-341682 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:56:39 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15998#comment-341682 OpenBSD had W^X on i386 before using segmentation, but now there’s a new PAE pmap which will allow finer grained protection using the hardware NX (..or XD) bit.

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/04/25/in-other-bsds-for-20150425/comment-page-1/#comment-341616 Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:09:38 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15998#comment-341616 It would be nice if NVIDIA made open source drivers or published more information, so that (in theory) more open source developers could work on it.

It could be licensing rules prevent it, or some other aspect we’re totally unaware of.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/04/25/in-other-bsds-for-20150425/comment-page-1/#comment-341575 Sat, 25 Apr 2015 13:43:14 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15998#comment-341575 We have no nvidia support though.

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