Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:20:30 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New nvidia drivers available Message-ID: <200408150920.31635.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <411E8748.3000801@elischer.org> References: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> <200408142223.51786.dfr@nlsystems.com> <411E8748.3000801@elischer.org>
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On Saturday 14 August 2004 22:42, Julian Elischer wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Saturday 14 August 2004 21:50, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >>On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:34:24PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > >>>The latest 6113 build of the nvidia graphics drivers has just > >>>appeared on nvidia's web site. Check out > >>>http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html if you are > >>>currently using the nvidia proprietary drivers. This driver works > >>>nicely on FreeBSD-current and while this version is not > >>>thread-safe, it does not conflict with libpthread or libthr's use > >>>of %gs so you don't have to map everything down to libc_r any more > >>> > >>>:-). > > umm if it's not thread safe, how can you link it with libthread? Be careful not to call it from more than one thread at a time. The important thing is that it doesn't spam its own values into %gs so it doesn't break libpthread.
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