From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Jul  9 11:29:45 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9E11065683
	for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed,  9 Jul 2008 11:29:45 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from des@des.no)
Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05628FC2B
	for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed,  9 Jul 2008 11:29:45 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from des@des.no)
Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2])
	by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6282049;
	Wed,  9 Jul 2008 13:29:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com>
References: <5f67a8c40807081521o1f32660ak392672da61e490fd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:29:42 +0200
In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40807081521o1f32660ak392672da61e490fd@mail.gmail.com>
	(Zaphod Beeblebrox's message of "Tue\, 8 Jul 2008 18\:21\:27 -0400")
Message-ID: <86bq172t3t.fsf@ds4.des.no>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Glaring 64 bit omission
X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD
	<freebsd-hackers.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>,
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:29:46 -0000

"Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com> writes:
> [kernel changes for nVidia] should be on a priority list for 8.0 (and
> possibly even delaying 8.0 until we can achieve them so that 64bit
> nvidia support (arriving in -STABLE) is not delayed another year or
> two).

Firstly, we don't do feature-based releases.  We do time-based releases.

Secondly, these issues are already being worked on.

> Although AMD64 is a new platform

No, it isn't.

> it was a platform born out of desperation.

No, it wasn't.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no