On Dec 18, 2007 6:13 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sam Fourman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The only reason I suggested a petition is to demonstrate to Nvidia > > that thee is a viable FreeBSD / PC-BSD userbase for amd64 > > my thinking was, they already have a i386 driver so an amd64 driver > > should not be too hard to get them to make. > > Then you have not understood anything at all. The ball is not in > nVidia's camp. I understand what has to be done, I just don't see why Nvidia can not donate the code (and 50% of the time) to the FreeBSD code base to make the amd64 Driver happen. and let the FreeBSD community fund the other 50% (a kind of bounty fund) I personally would be willing to send something like $50.00 USD a month to any fund that would be for this cause.
I think a FreeBSD bounty Program (if there even is such a thing) is a Great idea. I can think of a bunch of things I would support 1 amd64 Nvidia support 2 better Wine support for FreeBSD, like amd64 support 3 a evdev driver for xorg (so all the buttons on my mx1000 mouse work) just to name a few. I am not complaining by any means, I just wish there was something I could do other than code to help. one day I will beable contribute code. Sam Fourman Jr. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
