On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 02:01 +0200, Marius Nuennerich wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:40:47 +0200 > Joel Dahl <joel_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:34 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > 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... > > > > I think I'd like to put them somewhere on the wiki... > > In case other people are interested; here is the link: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html > > Would be very nice to have this in the wiki and/or ideas list with > accurate status. I've documented everything at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests This is only what I could find in the email threads on the mailing lists and at the nvnews forum, so some parts may not accurately reflect reality. -- JoelReceived on Thu Jun 07 2007 - 14:39:14 UTC
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