On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Any issues that one might expect from things like ALSA or NVidia
> drivers?
NVIDIA hasn't published any native 64-bit drivers yet.
Oh?
http://www.nvidia.com/object//linux_display_amd64_1.0-4499
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia64_1.0-4050
What are those then? ;o)
I'd be surprised if ALSA was fully 64-bit clean, but I don't
use sound
on my AMD64 systems.
I'd assume that people with 64bit computers are also
using/testing ALSA, and that it's probably not 64bit neglected,
although I can't say from personal experience as all my 64bit
systems use 2.4.x
> I'd like to switch to AMD64 and help with QA and maybe
development as
> well, but i depend on the drivers mentioned above.
I'd say it's a bit too early to expect whiz-bang 3D performance
on 64-bit AMD64 desktop machines.
For proprietary drivers I'd expect them to be reasonable, but
one would really have to do specific benchmarks.
For OSS drivers, it's more of a matter of having working MTRR
support that doesn't suck (mostly XFree86 wonkiness for the time
being), and the AGP rate being set properly by the BIOS and
configurable in CMOS.
On the other hand, I'd say that the platform is solid for
servers, albeit with lots of packaging annoyances if you're
running mixed 32-bit and 64-bit userland.
File bug reports. ;o)
--
Mike A. Harris
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat