Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:03:13 +0900 From: Alastair Hogge <agh@coolrhaug.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, czander@nvidia.com, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Posting a bounty for the nVidia 64-bit wishlist Message-ID: <200901011403.13435.agh@coolrhaug.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0812311757t7b7f6830jb1351d550ceeacd9@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d6fde3d0812311757t7b7f6830jb1351d550ceeacd9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 01 January 2009 10:57:26 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello Hackers, > I have a request related to making FreeBSD to be a viable platform > on AMD/Intel 64-bit architectures, such that functionality as > requested by Chris (see: > <http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests>). Please note that > some of these things would also no doubt positively affect other > groups (ATI, Intel, etc) when writing x*64 drivers for FreeBSD, so the > list isn't just necessarily just applicable to nVidia. > If someone could list a number of sys/... files that I could look > at in order to get a brief grasp of what needs to be modified to > support proper 64-bit architecture vmem, pmap, etc, that would be > extremely helpful; I want to establish a reasonable timeframe and > skill set required for the task set, so I can establish a reasonable > monetary figure and/or resources to donate to the project. > Also, if anyone else is interested in this pursuit (I know there > are quite a few), feel free to contact me so we can coordinate our > efforts and pool our resources to get these sets of loose ends finally > tied up to have a more accessible FreeBSD based desktop. > Thanks! > -Garrett Are you aware of the efforts the PC-BSD project is making? http://trac.pcbsd.org/browser/freebsd-projects/nvidia-work Thanks -Alastair
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