NVidia i386 Driver on FreeBSD AMD64

[Doug White]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Astrodog wrote:

> Through about an hour of tinkering, I've gotten NVidia's i386 driver
> to compile, sans final linking, for AMD64.

[...]

> The error I get is:
> ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format
> elf32-i386-freebsd (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (nvidia.ko) is
> not supported.

This message doesn't lie -- we don't support mixed-mode objects. Solaris
doesn't either and I doubt we have plans to grow this support.  You'll
need all amd64-compiled object files; without them, you're sunk.

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