mmap & nVidia GPU driver
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jun 10 18:03:49 UTC 2009
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 3:42:26 pm Igor Serikov wrote:
> Fellow developers,
>
> Could you please comment on the following:
>
> (((
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-announce/2009/5/9/5671694
>
> John Baldwin:
>
> Currently I am waiting for review and feedback from several folks. I am
> hopeful that these patches will be in HEAD soon, prior to the 8.0
> freeze.
> )))
>
> (((
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1993739
> **zander* <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/member.php?u=566>*
>
> As to a BETA driver for FreeBSD/amd64, not all of John Baldwin's recent
> work has made it into FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT and FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE. Until
> this changes, I can't even speculate as to when a BETA driver might
> become available.
> )))
>
> Does it mean that there are still some chances that 8.0 will satisfy nVidia
and we will see this so long expected driver soon after the release?
I still believe we can get the changes into 8.0 and 7.3. Some of the changes
(e.g. d_mmap_single()) have already been checked into 8.0.
--
John Baldwin
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