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.