From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 00:03:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 B5D7E16A479 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:03:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C35A413C469 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:01:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Jun 2007 00:01:19 -0000 Received: from f049186069.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO sol.hackerzberg.local) [78.49.186.69] by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 07 Jun 2007 02:01:19 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5707313 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18P4ABeOhAPUB3ouN7vXNP2Z6/siNlrD3fMA0fVLe luF23prrO+7o39 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:01:22 +0200 From: Marius Nuennerich To: Joel Dahl 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:17:58 +0000 Cc: Alexander Leidinger , 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: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:03:21 -0000 On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:40:47 +0200 Joel Dahl wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:34 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting Joel Dahl (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 : > > >> >> > 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.