Why isn't -CURRENT supported with FreeBSD-NVidia-Driver ?

[yonailo]

Does that mean that it won't work with
-CURRENT ?

[crimsun]

http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44520&cid=4624590

[darius]

Originally posted by crimsun
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44520&cid=4624590
Works here (GF4 Ti4200).

I am rebuilding world to hopefully fix the __sF thing, then I can actually use the GL libraries :)

[jinks]

http://www.thirteenandtwo.org/nvidia/faq.html

[zander]

To sum the previous replies up, it is possible to disable the -CURRENT #error check in nv-freebsd.h to make the kernel module build and recent versions of the C library in -CURRENT have reverted the change that made __sF static. With those changes the drivers should work fine on -CURRENT; there have been reports from people who could not make the drivers work on -CURRENT, however, even though they worked with -STABLE on the same machine. That said, running with -CURRENT is a bit of a gamble, which shouldn't come as a surprise considering it's under active development and not yet intended for general use.

[Noth]

They don't support it for the same reasons they don't support Linux 2.5.x, they don't want to be wasting time tracking a moving target.