Status of AMD64 NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers for Xorg

[Robert Huff]

Martyn Hare writes:

>  What's the status regarding AMD64 NVIDIA Xorg drivers?  I know
>  this has been raised several times in the past but since the
>  release of FreeBSD 7.0 how near/far are we from having this?
>  
>  If i'm not mistaken an NVIDIA representative said it required
>  certain system calls to be implemented in order to port the
>  drivers to the architecture correctly, what's the status on that?
>  This has been bugging me for quite a while now.

	Last I heard, some inconsiderate lout <waves> had suggested it
as a Summer of Code project.  (Though I can't seem to find it at 
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ )


					Robert Huff