Quoting Joel Dahl <joel_at_FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:15:36 +0200): > 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... And we don't have them on the ideas list, so it's not obvious what is needed... Bye, Alexander. -- The Gordian Maxim: If a string has one end, it has another. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137Received on Wed Jun 06 2007 - 05:34:47 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:11 UTC