Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051535170.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Joel Dahl wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:31 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> 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.. >> can't get nv to work under amd64 :(...). >> We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 development >> a bit more *sigh*.. > > Well, nvidia wants to build a driver for FreeBSD/amd64, but they're > waiting for us to implement certain necessary "features" first... > > -- > Joel What features might that be? -Garrett
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