new G4 towers

Geert Janssens yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Sep 6 08:19:01 2002


Graham Leggett wrote:
> Chris Croome wrote:
> 
>> Yes there are tgz, RPM and SRPM kernel modules and dirvers for
>> *INTEL* x86 machines and yes Quake3 rocks with a x86 machine and
>> these drivers, however they *DON'T* work with PPC processors.
> 
> 
> SRPMs are the source code, which in theory means someone could port the 
> drivers to PPC if someone was willing to take up the challenge.
> 
No,

As others on this thread have already said, the core of the nvidia 
drivers is supplied as Intel binary only.

The SRPMs only provide some kind of interface between this intel binary 
part and the kernel/XFree86. It will not compile into a complete driver.

Geert