NetBSD 7.1 RC2 Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetBSD 7.1 RC2 Released

The second release candidate to the upcoming NetBSD 7.1 is now available for testing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...NetBSD-7.1-RC2

[danieru]

Nouveau DDX?

[starshipeleven]

Nouveau DDX?

The xorg module for Noveau opensource reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver, responsible of 2D acceleration. xf86-video-nouveau package usually.

opensourced Linux "drivers" are split up in 2-3 different modules/parts, usually a kernel module that exposes the hardware to userspace, a userspace 3D acceleration provider (part of Mesa), and a userspace 2D acceleration provider that is a Xorg module.

See here https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Nouveau is composed of:
-a Linux kernel KMS driver (nouveau),
-Gallium3D drivers in Mesa,
-Xorg DDX (xf86-video-nouveau).

The kernel components have also been ported to NetBSD.

(and now it seems NetBSD has xf86-video-nouveau too so they can use NVIDIA cards to drive a desktop PC as long as they don't need 3D acceleration)