From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 08:03:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23AED16A400 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:03:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wilkinsa@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849F013C469 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:03:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wilkinsa@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from ednmsw510.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednmsw510.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.68.11]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l567rVqp009292 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:23:31 +0930 (CST) Received: from ednex510.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednex510.dsto.defence.gov.au) by ednmsw510.dsto.defence.gov.au (Clearswift SMTPRS 5.2.9) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:33:19 +0930 Received: from obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au ([203.6.60.208]) by ednex510.dsto.defence.gov.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:33:18 +0930 Received: from obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5683H3Z003172 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:03:18 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from wilkinsa@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: (from wilkinsa@localhost) by obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l5683HXO003171 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:03:17 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from wilkinsa) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:03:17 +0800 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070606080317.GE2977@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost> Organisation: Defence Science Technology Organisation User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jun 2007 08:03:18.0903 (UTC) FILETIME=[24D27070:01C7A811] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.0.0.1526-3.6.1039-15220.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--0.619100-8.000000-31 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:03:26 -0000 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 : >> >> > 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 IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email.