Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:28:37 +0300 From: Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What's the latest news on nVidia amd64 driver support? Message-ID: <4663F765.50104@sun-fish.com> In-Reply-To: <200706041016.l54AG6A2043814@serene.no-ip.org> References: <200706041016.l54AG6A2043814@serene.no-ip.org>
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Hi all, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I was recently browsing the nVidia site, and noticed that the last > significant info posting re: FreeBSD support for the nVidia video > driver was just about a year ago. > > Just wondering what sort of progress has been made since then. > > Thanks! > > I was wondering the same :) as FreeBSD 7 release is on its way. But I wasn't sure about the proper mail list as this driver was mostly discussed in multimedia@ and hackers@ :) What I read on forums is from 03-05-07 - posted by zander, one of the main developers of this driver for freebsd (?) : "To the best of my knowledge, the various obstacles still stand, e.g. the pmap_change_attr() interface doesn't handle large pages on FreeBSD/amd64 and the mmap() character driver callback doesn't allow drivers to specify a memory type for the mapping. As to device cloning, it unfortunately turned out to be too immature to support; it doesn't block a FreeBSD/amd64 port, though." But from what I know - http://freshbsd.org/2007/05/02/19/42/47 this is already done? I really hope that we will have driver for freebsd 6.3 or freebsd 7.0 :) -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177
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