FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64+NVIDIA

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 12 January 2007 15:43, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-Jan-12 05:25:24 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> >We need more amd64 users to register at the nVidia website and add their
> >comments in the hardware forum (see http://forums.nvidia.com) to request a
> >driver for FreeBSD/amd64.
> 
> My understanding is that nVidia have stated that they will release a
> FreeBSD/amd64 driver once FreeBSD/amd64 supports some features that
> the driver needs.  Looking back thru my archives, the blocking issue
> appears to be PAT (Page Attribute Table).  jhb@ [copied] has done some
> work on this and (last mail I've got) was waiting for feedback from
> nVidia.

There's more work to be done as well.  An nvidia developer sent out an
e-mail explaining exactly what they need a while back.

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John Baldwin