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Subject: Re: NVidia i386 Driver on FreeBSD AMD64
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:45:34 +0200, Ulrik Guenther <ulrik@00t.org> wrote:
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> 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.