Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th May 2006 22:44 UTC
FreeBSD "FreeBSD 5.5-RC1 is now available for testing. Things had been going well with the 5.5 BETAs up to the point we suspended making them so we could focus on the balance of the 6.1 release so we think 5.5 is pretty much ready to go. Unless big problems are reported with this RC we will start the 5.5 release builds this coming weekend and do the release early next week."
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RE[2]: RE: FreeBSD 6,x?
by Carnevill on Wed 17th May 2006 10:03 UTC in reply to "RE: RE: FreeBSD 6,x?"
Carnevill
Member since:
2006-01-18

The kernel is lacking some features that are needed by Nvidia hardware, mainly PAT. Which is being ported but probably won't be ready until 7.0.

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RE[3]: RE: FreeBSD 6,x?
by molnarcs on Wed 17th May 2006 11:22 in reply to "RE[2]: RE: FreeBSD 6,x?"
molnarcs Member since:
2005-09-10

What is PAT?

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RE[4]: RE: FreeBSD 6,x?
by Carnevill on Wed 17th May 2006 12:10 in reply to "RE[3]: RE: FreeBSD 6,x?"
Carnevill Member since:
2006-01-18

It stand for Page Attribute Table, according to an email posted on Nvidias FreeBSD forums the guy who's porting PAT said "Well, I have the PAT stuff ported over to amd64 now and running and sent
a patch to my nvidia contact earlier this week for testing. I am hopeful
that there will be an nvidia driver for amd64 by the time 7.0 is released." This was March of this year.

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