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

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Joel Dahl <joel at FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:15:36 +0200):

> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:31 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> 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*..
>
> Well, nvidia wants to build a driver for FreeBSD/amd64, but they're
> waiting for us to implement certain necessary "features" first...

And we don't have them on the ideas list, so it's not obvious what is  
needed...

Bye,
Alexander.


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