Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:03:17 +0800 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <20070606080317.GE2977@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost> References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost>
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0n Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:15:36PM +0200, Joel Dahl wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:31 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Diego Depaoli wrote:
>> > 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>:
>> >> > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run
>> >> > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend
>> >> > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run
>> >> > correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many.
>> >>
>> >> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko.
>> > That's true.
>> > Is there any news?
>> >
>> Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me..
>> can't get nv to work under amd64 :(...).
>> We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 development
>> a bit more *sigh*..
>
>Well, nvidia wants to build a driver for FreeBSD/amd64, but they're
>waiting for us to implement certain necessary "features" first...
Such as ?
-aW
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