Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:06:09 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: des@des.no (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? Message-ID: <26eed6fd4518c4ec43b35a6ad77ef075@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <861x9bdlsz.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <20050413210855.GA15088@bitsurf.net> <200504131714.20356.jkim@niksun.com> <86fyxt1ovu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050415005850.GB80903@dragon.NUXI.org> <2fd864e050414180911e4e5be@mail.gmail.com> <20050415211600.GA1473@dragon.NUXI.org> <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <2fd864e050415174048dc579d@mail.gmail.com> <346a802205041519071e4dc609@mail.gmail.com> <4260D654.3060301@mail.uni-mainz.de> <861x9bdlsz.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Apr 16, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> writes: >> My question si: how to force nVidia delivering the needed >> informations? It should be an aspect of customer demand. nVidia >> earns money with each sold nForce based motherboard and each GForce >> based graphics card and the better the support, the more they can >> sell. > > Why would they care about FreeBSD users? Unlike Linux, FreeBSD has > approximately zero brainshare in the computer press, and unlike > FreeBSD, Linux runs perfectly well on nForce chipsets. In fact, the > Asus SK8N which David loathes is "Linux-certified". If I didn't > already know that FreeBSD is perfect and flawless and that David is > the Christ reborn, I'd be tempted to conclude that there is something > wrong with FreeBSD (or David), not with the nForce chipset. The problem is that FreeBSD tries to still use IRQ 0 and use mixed=20 mode. Both Linux and Windows use the lapic timer instead of IRQ 0=20 which 6.0 now does. We just weren't being Windowsy enough, and almost=20= all BIOS writers, etc. use "boots on Windows" as their QA test. --=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org=
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