On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:03 +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > 0n Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:15:36PM +0200, 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... > > Such as ? Check the hackers_at_ archives. -- JoelReceived on Wed Jun 06 2007 - 13:57:36 UTC
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