Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:40:34 -0500 From: eculp@encontacto.net To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <20070605114034.zhsdibbccgwswk00@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu>
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Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>: > Diego Depaoli wrote: >> 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>: >>>> 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.. =20 > can't get nv to work under amd64 :(...). > We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 =20 > development a bit more *sigh*.. Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread. As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 =20 with nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me =20 over to AMD in addition to past experience has always been good with =20 them. I also had the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia =20 which made the decision make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw =20 these, before rather that after the fact. I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2 =20 with AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of =20 PRE-buyers remorse? ;) Thanks, ed
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