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

[Joel Dahl]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 02:01 +0200, Marius Nuennerich wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:40:47 +0200
> Joel Dahl <joel at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:34 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > 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...
> > 
> > I think I'd like to put them somewhere on the wiki...
> 
> In case other people are interested; here is the link:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html
> 
> Would be very nice to have this in the wiki and/or ideas list with
> accurate status.

I've documented everything at:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests

This is only what I could find in the email threads on the mailing lists
and at the nvnews forum, so some parts may not accurately reflect
reality.

-- 
Joel