From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 16:39:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6939716A468 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:39:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2FDA13C44B for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:39:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 241AE37F9C; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:39:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D52E37F77; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:39:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.197] (81-229-94-7-no68.tbcn.telia.com [81.229.94.7]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D545037E47; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:39:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: Marius Nuennerich In-Reply-To: <20070607020122.758c6a79@sol.hackerzberg.local> References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost> <20070606093426.pc1yle0wg8cggcw4@webmail.leidinger.net> <1181144447.1243.3.camel@localhost> <20070607020122.758c6a79@sol.hackerzberg.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:39:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1181234365.1243.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexander Leidinger , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:39:14 -0000 On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 02:01 +0200, Marius Nuennerich wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:40:47 +0200 > Joel Dahl wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:34 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Quoting Joel Dahl (from Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:15:36 +0200): > > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:31 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > >> Diego Depaoli wrote: > > > >> > 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten : > > > >> >> > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run > > > >> >> > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend > > > >> >> > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run > > > >> >> > correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. > > > >> >> > > > >> >> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko. > > > >> > That's true. > > > >> > Is there any news? > > > >> > > > > >> Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me.. > > > >> can't get nv to work under amd64 :(...). > > > >> We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 development > > > >> a bit more *sigh*.. > > > > > > > > Well, nvidia wants to build a driver for FreeBSD/amd64, but they're > > > > waiting for us to implement certain necessary "features" first... > > > > > > And we don't have them on the ideas list, so it's not obvious what is > > > needed... > > > > I think I'd like to put them somewhere on the wiki... > > In case other people are interested; here is the link: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html > > Would be very nice to have this in the wiki and/or ideas list with > accurate status. I've documented everything at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests This is only what I could find in the email threads on the mailing lists and at the nvnews forum, so some parts may not accurately reflect reality. -- Joel