From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 2 09:50:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB02116A407 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmendez@energyhq.be) Received: from spitfire.energyhq.be (20.Red-88-6-12.staticIP.rima-tde.net [88.6.12.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55614412E for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:50:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mmendez@energyhq.be) Received: from scienide.energyhq.be (scienide.energyhq.be [192.168.2.2]) by spitfire.energyhq.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BEA9FEAE; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:50:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:49:50 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez To: Christian Zander Message-Id: <20060702114950.bf39e312.mmendez@energyhq.be> In-Reply-To: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com> References: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com> Organization: EnergyHQ X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Sun__2_Jul_2006_11_49_50_+0200_2W40b2VpcOOz+tYZ" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:50:28 -0000 --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 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 =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--