Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:56:44 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video card for amd64 Message-ID: <200610191356.44940.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <17719.45210.731064.703629@bhuda.mired.org> References: <45351E55.000003.14882@webmail11.yandex.ru> <200610191025.29016.jhb@freebsd.org> <17719.45210.731064.703629@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Thursday 19 October 2006 13:06, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Because our kernel doesn't yet provide all the features the driver needs. > > But it does for the i386? That seems really strange... For good performance with i386 and PCI-e it needs the changes on i386 as well, but amd64 needs it at a more basic level. > > I've added some of them, but mroe stuff is needed. Nvidia sent out an > > e-mail a while back listing the things they need as far as kernel support. > > Given their willingness to do a driver and my interactions with both > > ATI (in the past) and Nvidia, I'd say that Nvidia supports FreeBSD much > > more than ATI at this point. Note that ATI only opened up their documents > > for the older R2xx cards under an NDA to developers working for a company > > that was under contract to develop a driver, not out of the goodness of their > > heart. To my knowledge, Nvidia is not providing a FreeBSD driver due to a > > commercial contract, but closer to "out of the goodness of their heart." > > Where did the docs for the R3xx and R4xx cards come from? They didn't > get 3d support, but they at least got better support than the nvidia > cards. I wasn't aware that they even had docs, but were reverse engineering it and/or depending on the R2xx docs, since 2d interfaces tends to change a lot less (and be simpler) than 3d. -- John Baldwin
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