Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:01:22 +0200 From: Marius Nuennerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> To: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <20070607020122.758c6a79@sol.hackerzberg.local> In-Reply-To: <1181144447.1243.3.camel@localhost> 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> <20070606093426.pc1yle0wg8cggcw4@webmail.leidinger.net> <1181144447.1243.3.camel@localhost>
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:40:47 +0200 Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:34 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting Joel Dahl <joel@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@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.
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