Christian Zander sent an email to the FreeBSD-Hackers list detailing NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests. Having high quality video drivers is a very good thing:
NVIDIA has been looking at ways to improve its graphics driver for the
FreeBSD i386 platform, as well as investigating the possibility of adding
support for the FreeBSD amd64 platform, and identified a number of
obstacles. Some progress has been made to resolve them, and NVIDIA would
like to summarize the current status. We would also like to thank John
Baldwin and Doug Rabson for their valuable help.This summary makes an attempt to describe the kernel interfaces needed by
the NVIDIA FreeBSD i386 graphics driver to achieve feature parity with
the Linux/Solaris graphics drivers, and/or required to make support for
the FreeBSD amd64 platform feasible. It also describes some of the
technical difficulties encountered by NVIDIA during the FreeBSD i386
graphics driver’s development, how these problems have been worked around
and what could be done to solve them better.
UPDATE Thu 13 Jul 2006 @ 2:30pm : BSDTalk has an interview with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from nVidia.