Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10_at_u.washington.edu>: > Diego Depaoli wrote: >> 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed_at_fxq.nl>: >>>> In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run >>>> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend >>>> on a certain piece of software which is known not to run >>>> correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. >>> >>> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko. >> That's true. >> Is there any news? >> > Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me.. > can't get nv to work under amd64 :(...). > We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 > development a bit more *sigh*.. Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread. As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 with nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me over to AMD in addition to past experience has always been good with them. I also had the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia which made the decision make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw these, before rather that after the fact. I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2 with AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of PRE-buyers remorse? ;) Thanks, edReceived on Tue Jun 05 2007 - 14:40:42 UTC
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