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  • Age: 35
  • Sex: Male
  • Location: Whitechapel
  • Occupation: NetBSD Developer
  • Status: is hacking SGI graphics hardware
  • Member since: Mar 2003
  • Forum posts: 45289
  • Jabber: macallan [at] jabber.berlin.ccc.de
  • Web site: http://www.netbsd.org
  • Login status: Offline

My work

I'm more or less responsible for Tadpole SPARCbook 3 hardware support in NetBSD. Right now we have drivers for pretty much all built-in hardware, the only missing pieces are ISDN ( which I can't do because I have no ISDN line here ) and audio input ( which I'll do when I can be arsed to do so ). Besides that I'm hacking XFree86 and X.org on not so mainstream hardware - wrote both kernel and XFree drivers for the SPARCbook, added hardware acceleration to a few others, did substantial bugfixes / improvements to the sunffb driver, made it work at all on sparc64 and on many more chips on macppc ( like Voodoo3 ). On macppc I did some major improvements regarding Old World hardware, wrote a few drivers ( mainly system monitoring / fan controller chips and graphics controllers) and general improvements ( like adding some more controls to the snapper audio driver ). Now I'm also NetBSD/macppc portmaster.

Fast facts

  • Last movie seen:Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke :insane:
  • Best album right now:Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process
  • Best game right now:Civilization III
  • Favorite sports team:eh?
  • Favorite travel destination:Praha
  • On my vacation I..:Try out local :beer:
  • Software I use:NetBSD
  • Hardware I use:Various Suns, Macs and SGIs