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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