Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:57:41 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64+NVIDIA Message-ID: <200701121557.42417.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070112204308.GE842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <a693677b0612290802u4647e34fwa02e6dea379c1313@mail.gmail.com> <20070112052524.471bbe49@serene.no-ip.org> <20070112204308.GE842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Friday 12 January 2007 15:43, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Fri, 2007-Jan-12 05:25:24 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > >We need more amd64 users to register at the nVidia website and add their > >comments in the hardware forum (see http://forums.nvidia.com) to request a > >driver for FreeBSD/amd64. > > My understanding is that nVidia have stated that they will release a > FreeBSD/amd64 driver once FreeBSD/amd64 supports some features that > the driver needs. Looking back thru my archives, the blocking issue > appears to be PAT (Page Attribute Table). jhb@ [copied] has done some > work on this and (last mail I've got) was waiting for feedback from > nVidia. There's more work to be done as well. An nvidia developer sent out an e-mail explaining exactly what they need a while back. -- John Baldwin
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