Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:37:45 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia FX Support? Message-ID: <20040506113745.ojg9sgkkc800s8cs@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <409A566A.803@mitre.org> References: <40982623.2090804@bellsouth.net> <20040505102632.73f67bbe.manlix@demonized.net> <"115944527.20040505 112857"@andric.com> <20040505141924.GF34693@sirius.firepipe.net> <409A566A.803@mitre.org>
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Quoting Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>: > Will Andrews wrote: > >> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:28:57AM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: >> >>> The problem is that NVidia hasn't updated its binary-only FreeBSD >>> driver since July 1st, 2003. Any cards released after this date will >>> not work properly, or at all, with this driver. So please go bug >>> NVidia. :) >>> >>> But, see also this thread: >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2003-June/000530.html >>> >>> which might explain why it takes forever for new drivers to arrive. :( > > Ugh, reading through that thread I got a bad bad feeling that it will be > ages before we see another NVidia driver. The NVidia engineer is > unwilling to proceed without his %gs register, and the FreeBSD engineers > are unwilling to give it to him because the fast thread switching needs > it for good performance. The NVidia engineers needs the %gs register > for good performance, and will not release drivers that are 10-50% > slower than the Windows ones. > > It looks like the whole situation is at a standstill at the moment, > which means we get no new drivers until the whole thing is sorted out. > It's really distressing to see how frustrated the NVidia engineer was by > the end of the thread. > I'm pretty sure that the FreeBSD people are working on TLS, which will allow the nvidia people to be happy. Ken
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