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

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 04 June 2007 07:28:37 am Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> 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 :)

No, the current PAT stuff still has the limitations Zander has indicated.

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John Baldwin