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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:04:23 +0200
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New nvidia drivers available
Message-ID:  <1092513863.16783.4.camel@dude.automatvapen.se>
In-Reply-To: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com>

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Lör 2004-08-14 klockan 20.34 skrev Doug Rabson:
> The latest 6113 build of the nvidia graphics drivers has just appeared 
> on nvidia's web site. Check out 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html if you are currently 
> using the nvidia proprietary drivers. This driver works nicely on 
> FreeBSD-current and while this version is not thread-safe, it does not 
> conflict with libpthread or libthr's use of %gs so you don't have to 
> map everything down to libc_r any more :-).
> 
> There will be a thread-safe driver available for FreeBSD-current 
> sometime after I commit the pthread parts of the TLS support code.

This is very good news! :-)

Thanks for all your work with TLS Doug, and thanks Nvidia! I'm very much
looking forward to test these drivers with some of my new Nvidia cards.




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