From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 23:03:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A9416A469 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:03:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from ro-out-1112.google.com (ro-out-1112.google.com [72.14.202.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1DE13C474 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:03:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by ro-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k5so724821rog for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:03:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8FYyqzsVksJ/ZhXercXiAWV9iZPqXUmq5KnjK6glXAE=; b=SCsScji6AHCqnDPOERwg6+XT88WgvCsKwVcGVlwJug16wKb6gtp/kzPv/vAJ1ByXVa/wYIrPMk8IqXcfzgltYcWStByImwgtJ+cmLciOary5DZKrdd8khXU9a9HK4XtUYpeaty6ZEkZR4h4qTuyTP++xoes4/9afUQcAi09sqZA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dBN/vaQoo+hxGtxpfzzuNxaxIGUhGtmt/MMG0djDvjd+4Nj6/RocgmpFzJQTFO765STxMy20B4z0zeE0u014G6XY3/B5cDU6LJsBfRtDVqH1xShyzuKpNVYe+1VoTtDOfWFSgCeIuRKhWzQHg/ZwyGc5PHEAi215MVhupdtQbbo= Received: by 10.114.199.1 with SMTP id w1mr1069230waf.1195254212227; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:03:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.13.15 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:03:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:03:32 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Remko Lodder" In-Reply-To: <473E16A2.1070308@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1195250927.473e14ef935c6@webmail.rawbw.com> <473E16A2.1070308@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Yuri , yuri@tsoft.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:03:34 -0000 On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 PM, Remko Lodder wrote: > Yuri wrote: > > I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on > > 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. > > > > Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done? > > > > I have NVidia card but still run 32-bit system because of lack of driver. > > > > Yuri > > Hello, > > This discussion gets over and over again actually, no the required > support is not yet there. There is a wiki page which denotes what > is required to get this going. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests > > If you desperately need this, then consider funding someone > (this has popped up before, it's interesting to arrange something > like this because you need a trustable intermediating party that > can arrange this, the FreeBSD Foundation is currently not able > to do so as far as I can recall); who will do the work for you > or do it yourself. > > There is currently no other way to get the support you want. > > Thanks, > remko > Remko - relax :) The wiki isn't really an obvious place for people to look. If we don't already we should have a page on "popular hardware with support issues". -Kip