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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:15:36 +0200
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
Message-ID:  <1181060136.1248.1.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu>
References:  <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu>

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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




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