NVidia driver for amd64 / Page Attribute Table status?

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 05:30 am, creep at desk.pl wrote:
> > It's not finished, no.  The WIP is being done in the p4_pat branch
> > (though it
> > has some crud in it now that probably isn't needed).  For more info about
> > PAT
> > and memory caching modes on x86 including MTRR's, etc. you can go
> > download the vol 2 IA-32 arch PDF from developer.intel.com.  It's not a
> > conspiracy, there are no black helicopters.
>
> Thanks for info, I'm sure there is no conspiracy in BSD developement, but
> they sure keep they heads down in the nVidia camp. I mainly asked what are
> the limitations of FreeBSD which block nvidia amd64 driver. It was nowhere
> explicitly said that PAT is to blame. If this feature is finished, can we
> expect the driver from nvidia?

I think that is probably a safe assumption, but it would be within the 
restraints of their timelines.  They have release schedules and timelines 
just like FreeBSD does, so it would probably not be available until the PAT 
stuff is available and working for at least one of their release cycles.

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