What's the latest news on nVidia amd64 driver support?

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hi all,

Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> I was recently browsing the nVidia site, and noticed that the last
> significant info posting re: FreeBSD support for the nVidia video
> driver was just about a year ago.
>
> Just wondering what sort of progress has been made since then.
>
> Thanks!
>
>   
I was wondering the same :) as FreeBSD 7 release is on its way.
But I wasn't sure about the proper mail list as this driver was mostly 
discussed in multimedia@ and hackers@ :)

What I read on forums is from 03-05-07 - posted by zander, one of the 
main developers of this driver for freebsd (?) :

"To the best of my knowledge, the various obstacles still stand, e.g. 
the pmap_change_attr() interface doesn't handle
large pages on FreeBSD/amd64 and the mmap() character driver callback 
doesn't allow drivers to specify a memory
type for the mapping. As to device cloning, it unfortunately turned out 
to be too immature to support; it doesn't block
 a FreeBSD/amd64 port, though."

But from what I know - http://freshbsd.org/2007/05/02/19/42/47 this is 
already done?

I really hope that we will have driver for freebsd 6.3 or freebsd 7.0 :)

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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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