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Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>,
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Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7
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"Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> writes:
> The only reason I suggested a petition is to demonstrate to Nvidia
> that thee is a viable FreeBSD / PC-BSD userbase for amd64
> my thinking was, they already have a i386 driver so an amd64 driver
> should not be too hard to get them to make.

Then you have not understood anything at all.  The ball is not in
nVidia's camp.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests

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