Re: mmap & nVidia GPU driver

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 3:42:26 pm Igor Serikov wrote:
>    Fellow developers,
> 
> Could you please comment on the following:
> 
> (((
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-announce/2009/5/9/5671694
> 
> John Baldwin:
> 
> Currently I am waiting for review and feedback from several folks. I am
>    hopeful that these patches will be in HEAD soon, prior to the 8.0
>    freeze.
> )))
> 
> (((
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1993739
> **zander* <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/member.php?u=566>*
> 
> As to a BETA driver for FreeBSD/amd64, not all of John Baldwin's recent
> work has made it into FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT and FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE. Until
> this changes, I can't even speculate as to when a BETA driver might
> become available.
> )))
> 
> Does it mean that there are still some chances that 8.0 will satisfy nVidia 
and we will see this so long expected driver soon after the release?

I still believe we can get the changes into 8.0 and 7.3.  Some of the changes 
(e.g. d_mmap_single()) have already been checked into 8.0.

-- 
John Baldwin