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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