Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Tue Jun 5 15:31:04 UTC 2007


Diego Depaoli wrote:
> 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed at 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*..
-Garrett


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