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Date:      Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:29:42 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Glaring 64 bit omission
Message-ID:  <86bq172t3t.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40807081521o1f32660ak392672da61e490fd@mail.gmail.com> (Zaphod Beeblebrox's message of "Tue\, 8 Jul 2008 18\:21\:27 -0400")
References:  <5f67a8c40807081521o1f32660ak392672da61e490fd@mail.gmail.com>

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"Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com> writes:
> [kernel changes for nVidia] should be on a priority list for 8.0 (and
> possibly even delaying 8.0 until we can achieve them so that 64bit
> nvidia support (arriving in -STABLE) is not delayed another year or
> two).

Firstly, we don't do feature-based releases.  We do time-based releases.

Secondly, these issues are already being worked on.

> Although AMD64 is a new platform

No, it isn't.

> it was a platform born out of desperation.

No, it wasn't.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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