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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:50:27 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Igor Serikov <bt@turtle.freedns.us>
Subject:   Re: mmap & nVidia GPU driver
Message-ID:  <200906101350.27858.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A2EBB22.10501@turtle.freedns.us>
References:  <4A2EBB22.10501@turtle.freedns.us>

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On Tuesday 09 June 2009 3:42:26 pm Igor Serikov wrote:
>    Fellow developers,
> 
> Could you please comment on the following:
> 
> (((
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-announce/2009/5/9/5671694
> 
> John Baldwin:
> 
> Currently I am waiting for review and feedback from several folks. I am
>    hopeful that these patches will be in HEAD soon, prior to the 8.0
>    freeze.
> )))
> 
> (((
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1993739
> **zander* <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/member.php?u=566>*
> 
> As to a BETA driver for FreeBSD/amd64, not all of John Baldwin's recent
> work has made it into FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT and FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE. Until
> this changes, I can't even speculate as to when a BETA driver might
> become available.
> )))
> 
> Does it mean that there are still some chances that 8.0 will satisfy nVidia 
and we will see this so long expected driver soon after the release?

I still believe we can get the changes into 8.0 and 7.3.  Some of the changes 
(e.g. d_mmap_single()) have already been checked into 8.0.

-- 
John Baldwin



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