Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:26:00 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Cc: Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> Subject: Re: What's the latest news on nVidia amd64 driver support? Message-ID: <200706041426.01179.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4663F765.50104@sun-fish.com> References: <200706041016.l54AG6A2043814@serene.no-ip.org> <4663F765.50104@sun-fish.com>
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On Monday 04 June 2007 07:28:37 am Stefan Lambrev wrote: > Hi all, > > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > I was recently browsing the nVidia site, and noticed that the last > > significant info posting re: FreeBSD support for the nVidia video > > driver was just about a year ago. > > > > Just wondering what sort of progress has been made since then. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > I was wondering the same :) as FreeBSD 7 release is on its way. > But I wasn't sure about the proper mail list as this driver was mostly > discussed in multimedia@ and hackers@ :) > > What I read on forums is from 03-05-07 - posted by zander, one of the > main developers of this driver for freebsd (?) : > > "To the best of my knowledge, the various obstacles still stand, e.g. > the pmap_change_attr() interface doesn't handle > large pages on FreeBSD/amd64 and the mmap() character driver callback > doesn't allow drivers to specify a memory > type for the mapping. As to device cloning, it unfortunately turned out > to be too immature to support; it doesn't block > a FreeBSD/amd64 port, though." > > But from what I know - http://freshbsd.org/2007/05/02/19/42/47 this is > already done? > > I really hope that we will have driver for freebsd 6.3 or freebsd 7.0 :) No, the current PAT stuff still has the limitations Zander has indicated. -- John Baldwin
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