From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 05:28:05 2009 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 BBD311065680 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:28:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from agh@coolrhaug.com) Received: from mail5.qnetau.com (mail5.qnetau.com [202.146.209.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29468FC14 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from agh@coolrhaug.com) Received: (qmail 78338 invoked by uid 399); 1 Jan 2009 05:01:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO madcat.localnet) (202.89.181.71) by mail5.qnetau.com with ESMTPM; 1 Jan 2009 05:01:22 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 202.89.181.71 From: Alastair Hogge To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:03:13 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.1; i386; ; ) References: <7d6fde3d0812311757t7b7f6830jb1351d550ceeacd9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0812311757t7b7f6830jb1351d550ceeacd9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901011403.13435.agh@coolrhaug.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper , czander@nvidia.com, Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: Posting a bounty for the nVidia 64-bit wishlist 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: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:28:06 -0000 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: > ). 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