On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 15:18 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > > Hi > > > > I was wondering if you're working on a port for the 64bit version of > > the new beta state nvidia driver [1]. > > Yup, thanks for the pointer. I'm considering options right now. > > > > > Since it's a completely different version it should IMO be separate from > > x11/nvidia-driver. Maybe x11/nvidia-driver-amd64 and x11/nvidia-driver > > could be renamed to x11/nvidia-driver-i386. > > This would be the easiest route, but I'm not sure this is the best thing > to do. From user's perspective, one should be able to "cd > category/port" and "make install". The rest (including taking care of > architecture-dependent things) should be handled by underlying > infrastructure. Right now I believe our bpm is capable of the task, and > my pmake/bpm-fu is strong enough, we'll see.
I've never actually used the blob, but is the new driver only amd64? I presume that it does need at least 8.0-RELEASE to work, but I can't imagine that the underlying code would be different for i386/amd64. i.e. the new driver *should* be better on both i386 and amd64, at least if they have compiled an i386 version. I do still wish that nvidia would join the rest of the modern world and decide to release docs and code like every other vendor, but that is a different debate I suppose. robert. > ./danfe > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> FreeBSD _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
