From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 18:45:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816CA16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post.00t.org (feynman.00t.org [217.160.135.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B81543D3F for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulrik@00t.org) Received: from [172.24.0.14] (pD9E1F83D.dip.t-dialin.net [217.225.248.61]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by post.00t.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14AF192BD; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:45:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <424AF3CE.4080209@00t.org> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:45:34 +0200 From: Ulrik Guenther User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050309) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <2fd864e05032900397d7733e8@mail.gmail.com> <20050329211942.P59551@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050329211942.P59551@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia i386 Driver on FreeBSD AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:26 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, NVidia currently seems not wanting to make binary drivers for FreeBSD/AMD64. Some time ago somebody at nvnews.net started a thread in their forum with the plea for drivers for AMD64, the URL is http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545 Maybe it helps if many people post there and tell the guys at NVidia that there really is need for these certain drivers. Thanks for listening, Ulrik Doug White wrote: | 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. | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCSvPOy06DkvPH780RAntEAJ4igvPNeKcTIMOPYGj5bF32W2GRKwCeNcmN Bt+NSQeTEce4Y2LvU0Bw46k= =AfOf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----