Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:20:54 -0800 From: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia i386 Driver on FreeBSD AMD64 Message-ID: <2fd864e05033013208e43bf9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <424AF3CE.4080209@00t.org> References: <2fd864e05032900397d7733e8@mail.gmail.com> <20050329211942.P59551@carver.gumbysoft.com> <424AF3CE.4080209@00t.org>
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:45:34 +0200, Ulrik Guenther <ulrik@00t.org> wrote: > -----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. > | > Perhaps it would be possible to statically link things to the kernel itself? ld doesn't seem to complain unless you try to make a relocatable object.
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