Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:44:02 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "czander@nvidia.com" <czander@nvidia.com>, Alastair Hogge <agh@coolrhaug.com>, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Posting a bounty for the nVidia 64-bit wishlist Message-ID: <03CD2B60-80A5-49D8-A504-DE2D68D643E7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090101130232.GA26197@freebsd.org> References: <7d6fde3d0812311757t7b7f6830jb1351d550ceeacd9@mail.gmail.com> <200901011403.13435.agh@coolrhaug.com> <20090101130232.GA26197@freebsd.org>
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On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:02, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:03:13PM +0900, Alastair Hogge wrote: >> On Thursday 01 January 2009 10:57:26 Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> Hello Hackers, >>> I have a request related to making FreeBSD to be a viable >>> platform >>> on AMD/Intel 64-bit architectures, such that functionality as >>> requested by Chris (see: >>> <http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests>). Please note that >>> some of these things would also no doubt positively affect other >>> groups (ATI, Intel, etc) when writing x*64 drivers for FreeBSD, so >>> the >>> list isn't just necessarily just applicable to nVidia. >>> If someone could list a number of sys/... files that I could look >>> at in order to get a brief grasp of what needs to be modified to >>> support proper 64-bit architecture vmem, pmap, etc, that would be >>> extremely helpful; I want to establish a reasonable timeframe and >>> skill set required for the task set, so I can establish a reasonable >>> monetary figure and/or resources to donate to the project. >>> Also, if anyone else is interested in this pursuit (I know there >>> are quite a few), feel free to contact me so we can coordinate our >>> efforts and pool our resources to get these sets of loose ends >>> finally >>> tied up to have a more accessible FreeBSD based desktop. >>> Thanks! >>> -Garrett >> Are you aware of the efforts the PC-BSD project is making? >> >> http://trac.pcbsd.org/browser/freebsd-projects/nvidia-work > > wow, is anyone working on this being review/integrated? I wasn't aware of that either. I'd be more than happy to support that work if it makes it back into the main tree. Thanks! -Garrett
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