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Date:      Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:54:22 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64
Message-ID:  <20111213035422.0e4e581c@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <1323741000.3799.30.camel@asus>
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:50:00 -0800
Thomas D. Dean wrote:


> I guess this means there is no "native FreeBSD AMD64" driver, but,
> linux emulation of a driver.  Or, do I mis-understand linux emulation?

The driver *is* a 64 bit native driver. The linux support is there so
linux binaries can get the hardware support that native applications
get. As has already been mentioned, it's optional.



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