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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
