Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Tue Jun 5 22:30:54 UTC 2007
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
> Quoting Wesley Shields <wxs at atarininja.org>:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:40:34AM -0500, eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>>> Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>:
>>>
>>> > 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*..
>>>
>>> Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread.
>>>
>>> As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 with
>>> nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me over to
>>> AMD
>>> in addition to past experience has always been good with them. I also
>>> had
>>> the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia which made the decision
>>> make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw these, before rather that
>>> after
>>> the fact.
>>>
>>> I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2 with
>>> AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of PRE-buyers
>>> remorse? ;)
>>
>> Nvidia cards work just fine - just not with the nvidia driver. I'm
>> using xorg 7.2 with the nv driver just fine on an AMD64 laptop.
>>
>> -- WXS
>>
>
> Wesley, you made my day. Thanks. To show my ignorance, I thought the nv
> driver was synonymous with the nvidia driver. I use nv for all my desktops
> with AMD but they are not AMD64 and they work great.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> ed
nv will always work with nVidia chipsets (until the maintainer at nVidia stops supporting it :)..) because it's completely open sourced. As for the nvidia driver, like was stated earlier, it's close sourced, and only works on i386 now.
-Garrett
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