From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 15:57:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD68716A400 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2CA13C44C for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 1A0DC3829F; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:39:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D223803C; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:39:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.197] (81-229-94-7-no68.tbcn.telia.com [81.229.94.7]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11B537E45; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:39:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: "Wilkinson, Alex" In-Reply-To: <20070606080317.GE2977@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost> <20070606080317.GE2977@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:39:32 +0200 Message-Id: <1181144372.1243.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:57:36 -0000 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 : > >> >> > 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@ archives. -- Joel