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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:21:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NVidia i386 Driver on FreeBSD AMD64
Message-ID:  <20050329211942.P59551@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <2fd864e05032900397d7733e8@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2fd864e05032900397d7733e8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Astrodog wrote:

> Through about an hour of tinkering, I've gotten NVidia's i386 driver
> to compile, sans final linking, for AMD64.

[...]

> The error I get is:
> ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format
> elf32-i386-freebsd (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (nvidia.ko) is
> not supported.

This message doesn't lie -- we don't support mixed-mode objects. Solaris
doesn't either and I doubt we have plans to grow this support.  You'll
need all amd64-compiled object files; without them, you're sunk.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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