Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:34:26 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <20070606093426.pc1yle0wg8cggcw4@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1181060136.1248.1.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>
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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 =20 needed... Bye, Alexander. --=20 The Gordian Maxim: If a string has one end, it has another. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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