From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 22:41:34 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 F3FE316A41F for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:41:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from mail.farley.org (farley.org [67.64.95.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C583213C44C for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:41:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from [192.168.1.211] ([192.168.1.211]) by mail.farley.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l55MgBuW023145; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:42:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:41:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" To: youshi10@u.washington.edu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070605173914.F4448@baba.farley.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 22:41:34 -0000 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > 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... > > What features might that be? Christian Zander's (nVidia) request[1] for needed features in FreeBSD for the FreeBSD/amd64 driver. His latest update[2] about it. Sean 1. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html 2. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1262407&postcount=19 -- sean-freebsd@farley.org