From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 10 18:03:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD67B1065679 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6C68FC1D for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2EE2E46B0C; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:03:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 79C188A06A; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:03:46 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:50:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <4A2EBB22.10501@turtle.freedns.us> In-Reply-To: <4A2EBB22.10501@turtle.freedns.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906101350.27858.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:03:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Igor Serikov Subject: Re: mmap & nVidia GPU driver 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: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:03:49 -0000 On Tuesday 09 June 2009 3:42:26 pm Igor Serikov wrote: > Fellow developers, > > Could you please comment on the following: > > ((( > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-announce/2009/5/9/5671694 > > John Baldwin: > > Currently I am waiting for review and feedback from several folks. I am > hopeful that these patches will be in HEAD soon, prior to the 8.0 > freeze. > ))) > > ((( > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1993739 > **zander* * > > As to a BETA driver for FreeBSD/amd64, not all of John Baldwin's recent > work has made it into FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT and FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE. Until > this changes, I can't even speculate as to when a BETA driver might > become available. > ))) > > Does it mean that there are still some chances that 8.0 will satisfy nVidia and we will see this so long expected driver soon after the release? I still believe we can get the changes into 8.0 and 7.3. Some of the changes (e.g. d_mmap_single()) have already been checked into 8.0. -- John Baldwin