Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:36:17 +0100 From: "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alc@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kostik Belousov <kib@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFI] status of the nVidia requested kernel mods Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10711060436w2b031ae7g78c3e8ff70fdeccf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4730207C.7010701@gmail.com> References: <4730207C.7010701@gmail.com>
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2007/11/6, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>: > A while ago nVidia requested some major mods to mmap and a few other > memory related issues in the kernel does anyone know the current status > of these issues (the wiki still lists them as pending but I just wanted > to know if that was just due to lack of updated of the wiki).... the > reason for asking is I would like to take "ownership" of the issue set > (looking for a good kernel project not being done by half a dozen other > people) If you look at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests you can easilly check that the work seems splitted in 5 points. Let's say that #5 should be addressed by recent kib@'s work about fdclone (for a better overwiev please look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-October/007015.html ). The state of other tasks is a little bit floating. For example, pmap_mapdev_attr() and pmap_change_attr() are fully working on FreeBSD-i386, but currently support for large pages is missing. These should be addressed through superpages work, so I strongly suggest you to check with alc@ about them and to ping him about his further superpages plans. In the end, maybe you should concentrate mainly about #2 and #4. As evicted by private discussions with Christian Zander, nVidia doesn't really have preference for the KPI, so you can choose what you feel more appropriate, according with kib and alc (CC'ed). Good luck, Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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