From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 17:02:33 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 55DA516A46D for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:02:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2617713C4C2 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:02:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 674855C2E; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:04:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:04:53 -0400 From: Wesley Shields To: eculp@encontacto.net Message-ID: <20070605170453.GB38752@atarininja.org> References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> <20070605114034.zhsdibbccgwswk00@intranet.encontacto.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070605114034.zhsdibbccgwswk00@intranet.encontacto.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) 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: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:02:33 -0000 On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:40:34AM -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting Garrett Cooper : > > > 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*.. > > Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread. > > As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 with > nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me over to AMD > in addition to past experience has always been good with them. I also had > the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia which made the decision > make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw these, before rather that after > the fact. > > I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2 with > AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of PRE-buyers > remorse? ;) Nvidia cards work just fine - just not with the nvidia driver. I'm using xorg 7.2 with the nv driver just fine on an AMD64 laptop. -- WXS