Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:49:50 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <mmendez@energyhq.be> To: Christian Zander <czander@nvidia.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests Message-ID: <20060702114950.bf39e312.mmendez@energyhq.be> In-Reply-To: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com> References: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com>
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--Signature=_Sun__2_Jul_2006_11_49_50_+0200_2W40b2VpcOOz+tYZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:12:31 +0200 Christian Zander <czander@nvidia.com> wrote: Hi, I just saw an article on OSNews about this, seems I missed it. > NVIDIA has been looking at ways to improve its graphics driver for the > FreeBSD i386 platform, as well as investigating the possibility of adding > support for the FreeBSD amd64 platform, and identified a number of > obstacles. Some progress has been made to resolve them, and NVIDIA would Yes, I'll tell you what the obstacle is: Lack of documentation. If you guys released the specs of your hardware this wouldn't be a problem. Maybe not for the latest GPUs but I'm sure a lot people would be happy if they could use not-so-new NVidia hardware on FreeBSD/amd64. I built and AMD64 box from scratch with the sole purpose of running FreeBSD/amd64 on it. When it came time to choose the gfx card the choice was obvious: Ati Radeon 9250. I know that a lot of FreeBSDers are more than happy to have proprietary drivers which I personlly won't touch with the proverbial 10 foot pole :) So please, do tell, is there any _real_ problem with releasing a register spec doc for last year's hardware so amd64 users can hope to have more than a framebuffer some day? How about the proprietary nforce4 chipset? Cheers. --=20 Miguel Mendez <mmendez@energyhq.be>=20 http://www.energyhq.be PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 --Signature=_Sun__2_Jul_2006_11_49_50_+0200_2W40b2VpcOOz+tYZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEp5bBnLctrNyFFPERApKLAJ4zppstC0ubnW0emXQPO4WhWY4x3QCfeCfK ZWeZvczakRpw4iOcQolO85U= =lPCq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sun__2_Jul_2006_11_49_50_+0200_2W40b2VpcOOz+tYZ--
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