On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, youshi10_at_u.washington.edu wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Joel Dahl wrote: > >> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:31 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> 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*.. >> >> Well, nvidia wants to build a driver for FreeBSD/amd64, but they're >> waiting for us to implement certain necessary "features" first... > > What features might that be? Christian Zander's (nVidia) request[1] for needed features in FreeBSD for the FreeBSD/amd64 driver. His latest update[2] about it. Sean 1. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html 2. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1262407&postcount=19 -- sean-freebsd_at_farley.orgReceived on Tue Jun 05 2007 - 20:41:34 UTC
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