Posting a bounty for the nVidia 64-bit wishlist

[Alastair Hogge]

On Thursday 01 January 2009 10:57:26 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello Hackers,
>     I have a request related to making FreeBSD to be a viable platform
> on AMD/Intel 64-bit architectures, such that functionality as
> requested by Chris (see:
> <http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests>). Please note that
> some of these things would also no doubt positively affect other
> groups (ATI, Intel, etc) when writing x*64 drivers for FreeBSD, so the
> list isn't just necessarily just applicable to nVidia.
>     If someone could list a number of sys/... files that I could look
> at in order to get a brief grasp of what needs to be modified to
> support proper 64-bit architecture vmem, pmap, etc, that would be
> extremely helpful; I want to establish a reasonable timeframe and
> skill set required for the task set, so I can establish a reasonable
> monetary figure and/or resources to donate to the project.
>     Also, if anyone else is interested in this pursuit (I know there
> are quite a few), feel free to contact me so we can coordinate our
> efforts and pool our resources to get these sets of loose ends finally
> tied up to have a more accessible FreeBSD based desktop.
> Thanks!
> -Garrett
Are you aware of the efforts the PC-BSD project is making?

http://trac.pcbsd.org/browser/freebsd-projects/nvidia-work

Thanks
-Alastair