From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Apr 19 11:44:06 2011
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5971065673
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:44:06 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de
	[130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3668FC12
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:44:06 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69])
	by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69)
	for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org with esmtp
	(envelope-from <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>)
	id <1QC9Lh-000502-DU>; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:44:05 +0200
Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198])
	by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69)
	for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org with esmtpsa
	(envelope-from <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>)
	id <1QC9Lh-0004HW-BN>; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:44:05 +0200
Message-ID: <4DAD758B.6050500@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:44:11 +0200
From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Organization: Freie =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Berlin?=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US;
	rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Thunderbird/3.1.9
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198
Subject: nVidia BLOB driver
X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:44:06 -0000

I have some questions about the state of the x11/nvidia-driver.

At the moment, the "stable" driver is beyond version number 260.XX, but 
FreeBSD's port contain only version 256.53. Is there a reason why there 
is no more recent version in the ports?
The next question is about a problem with nVidia NV560Ti boards. They ar 
not supported yet by any "official" driver, even not by any Linux BLOB, 
but there seems to be a "Beta" driver that already has support for this 
kind of board. Are the efforts and costs too high to provide a BETA 
driver, like x11/nvidia-driver-beta?

And the last question is about the place where the nVidia binary driver 
is kept. I tried to look for it intuitively at folder x11-driver. Is 
there a reason why this BLOB is kept outside the x11-driver folder?

Oliver