nVidia FX Support?

Cameron Murdoch cam at macaroon.net
Thu May 6 09:22:44 PDT 2004


Jason Andresen wrote:
> Kenneth Culver wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure that the FreeBSD people are working on TLS, which will 
>> allow the
>> nvidia people to be happy.
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it seems like TLS is what got them in 
> all of this trouble in the first place.  It seems that FreeBSD's 
> implementation uses the %gs register, which NVidia also wants to use.

I am sure that all the thread guys can speak for themselves, but as I 
understand it TLS is in the pipeline.  Check out:

http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/tls.html

for some more info though I don't know how current that info is.

Cheers,

Cam


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