Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:01:26 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? Message-ID: <42654776.9010205@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050419173957.GC26152@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200504131714.20356.jkim@niksun.com> <86fyxt1ovu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050415005850.GB80903@dragon.NUXI.org> <2fd864e050414180911e4e5be@mail.gmail.com> <20050415211600.GA1473@dragon.NUXI.org> <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <2fd864e050415174048dc579d@mail.gmail.com> <346a802205041519071e4dc609@mail.gmail.com> <4260D654.3060301@mail.uni-mainz.de> <861x9bdlsz.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050419173957.GC26152@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > >>"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> writes: >> >>>My question si: how to force nVidia delivering the needed >>>informations? It should be an aspect of customer demand. nVidia >>>earns money with each sold nForce based motherboard and each GForce >>>based graphics card and the better the support, the more they can >>>sell. >> >>Why would they care about FreeBSD users? Unlike Linux, FreeBSD has >>approximately zero brainshare in the computer press, and unlike >>FreeBSD, Linux runs perfectly well on nForce chipsets. In fact, the >>Asus SK8N which David loathes is "Linux-certified". > > > You have NO idea how many hoops Linux jumps thru to run on the Asus SK8N. > Let me repeat to you again -- _I_ was the first person to try to run > 64-bit Linux on this motherboard. It didn't work. The Linux kernel grew > many, many patches to deal with this motherboard and so you should be > saying it is only "Linux-certified" for newer versions of Linux. > > However, I can run older FreeBSD versions on both AMD and VIA baesd > motherboards (ie, FreeBSD versions released before the chipsets were > produced). What does that tell you?? > > >>If I didn't already know that FreeBSD is perfect and flawless and that >>David is the Christ reborn, I'd be tempted to conclude that there is >>something wrong with FreeBSD (or David), not with the nForce chipset. > > > If I didn't already know DES was a huge ass.... > Enough of this junk on this list. DES's proposal for mixed mode in 5.4 has the full support of the RE team, and as I said in another email it has no performance impact while expanding compatibility. Scott
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