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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:50:46 +0200
From:      Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia driver on amd64
Message-ID:  <x7odjiqsjd.fsf@nagual.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4671634F.4060801@u.washington.edu> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 08\:48\:31 -0700")
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706131747180.18410@hymn01.u.washington.edu> <200706140209.12134.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <x71wgf1596.fsf@nagual.nl> <4670DC26.4070202@u.washington.edu> <x7r6oe8z97.fsf@nagual.nl> <4671634F.4060801@u.washington.edu>

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Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes:
   
> Since you're not willing to do the research, I'll give you the
> reader's digest version. nVidia's waiting on FreeBSD to implement
> key features in the kernel in order to properly support the amd64
> and i386 + PAE platforms, because memory mapping and access isn't
> there yet in the FreeBSD kernel.
>
> Does that satisfy you?

I should have read the articles first. Lack of time due to daytime
job. Thought a quick reply could do. That was wrong. I wrote to
quickly. I can seet aht now. However, I _was_ willing to to the
research when I had the time (it's almost weekend). So you're
right. It's not nVidia, but a FreeBSD kernel problem.

> Read the archives in ports@, hackers@, and current@ over the past
> couple months to discover more details.

Will do.

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Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
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