From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 07:34:47 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 8E97D16A477; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EE913C48A; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54a5e961.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.233.97]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4A32E13F; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:34:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B415B4A93; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:34:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l567YQ5D081630; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:34:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:34:26 +0200 Message-ID: <20070606093426.pc1yle0wg8cggcw4@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:34:26 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Joel Dahl References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.764, required 8, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14, J_CHICKENPOX_62 0.60, SMILEY -0.50) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Garrett Cooper , Diego Depaoli , 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: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:34:47 -0000 Quoting Joel Dahl (from Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:15:36 +0200): > 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... And we don't have them on the ideas list, so it's not obvious what is =20 needed... Bye, Alexander. --=20 The Gordian Maxim: If a string has one end, it has another. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137