From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 22:35:18 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 239FC16A41F; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:35:18 +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 0B03613C4B7; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:35:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn09.u.washington.edu (hymn09.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.183]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.05) with ESMTP id l55MZHQQ012026 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:35:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn09.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l55MZHHZ026881; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:35:17 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.3] by hymn09.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:35:17 PDT Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Joel Dahl In-Reply-To: <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.5.151733 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 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 22:35:18 -0000 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 : >>>> > 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