From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 15:31:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E6F16A400 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBA013C45B for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.05) with ESMTP id l55FV3Xm011069 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:31:03 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-166-149-71.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.166.149.71]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l55FV2VV027313 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:31:03 -0700 Message-ID: <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:31:03 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Depaoli References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.5.81035 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:31:04 -0000 Diego Depaoli wrote: > 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten : >> > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run >> > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend >> > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run >> > correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. >> >> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko. > That's true. > Is there any news? > Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me.. can't get nv to work under amd64 :(...). We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 development a bit more *sigh*.. -Garrett