From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 20:43:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90A616A4B3; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:43:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-3-125.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.3.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB85613C458; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:43:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0CKh8aU011048; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:43:08 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0CKh82L011047; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:43:08 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:43:08 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Message-ID: <20070112204308.GE842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070112052524.471bbe49@serene.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070112052524.471bbe49@serene.no-ip.org> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64+NVIDIA X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:43:14 -0000 --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-Jan-12 05:25:24 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >We need more amd64 users to register at the nVidia website and add their >comments in the hardware forum (see http://forums.nvidia.com) to request a >driver for FreeBSD/amd64. My understanding is that nVidia have stated that they will release a FreeBSD/amd64 driver once FreeBSD/amd64 supports some features that the driver needs. Looking back thru my archives, the blocking issue appears to be PAT (Page Attribute Table). jhb@ [copied] has done some work on this and (last mail I've got) was waiting for feedback from nVidia. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/057808.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2006-April/007932.html --=20 Peter Jeremy --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFp/Lc/opHv/APuIcRAqP3AKC0CC7wpzgDwqF3uX57AGQj0ImQSwCgtJOc 2yK06twBIw0KeTkItgpc6lA= =b/0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig--