NVidia i386 Driver on FreeBSD AMD64

[Scott Long]

Astrodog wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:45:34 +0200, Ulrik Guenther <ulrik at 00t.org> wrote:
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>>Hello everyone,
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>>NVidia currently seems not wanting to make binary drivers for
>>FreeBSD/AMD64. Some time ago somebody at nvnews.net started a thread in
>>their forum with the plea for drivers for AMD64, the URL is
>>
>>http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545
>>
>>Maybe it helps if many people post there and tell the guys at NVidia
>>that there really is need for these certain drivers.
>>
>>Thanks for listening,
>>
>>Ulrik
>>
>>Doug White wrote:
>>| 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.
>>|
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
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>>|>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.
>>|
>>
> 
> 
> Perhaps it would be possible to statically link things to the kernel
> itself? ld doesn't seem to complain unless you try to make a
> relocatable object.

In case Doug's message wasn't clear enough:

We do not support mixed-mode objects.  You cannot run i386 object code
in an amd64 kernel.  It doesn't matter whether or not ld stops you, it's
just a simple fact of life.

Scott