nvidia-driver 195.22 use horribly broken on amd64 between r206173 and

Christian Zander czander at nvidia.com
Mon Jun 14 15:04:45 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:48:55AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
(...)
> > >>>
> > >>> I've asked the driver author if the calls to vm_page_wire() and
> > >>> vm_page_unwire() can simply be removed but have not heard back yet.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Is there any news on this? I have updated to the latest current so I'm
> > >> running the nv driver now, but I'd like to get the nvidia driver running
> > >> again.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Yes, the unnecessary (and now problematic) wiring and unwiring calls will be
> > > removed in a future release of the driver.
> > 
> > Excellent! Any ETA? Or are there patches against an existing version of 
> > the driver?
> 
> I would just remove the calls to vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() along 
> with the immediately adjacent calls to vm_page_{un,}lock_queues().
> 

That's all I did. The next 256.xx build will pick these changes up.

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christian zander
ch?zander at nvidia.com


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