On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:10 PM, b. f. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Okay. Maybe we'll see a convergence of the two in the medium/long > term. Right now, interested parties need to look at the available > hardware, and then talk to the vendors about whether they would be > willing to support a port of their software to FreeBSD, and > _specifically_, what is needed. For example, we faced a similar > situation with the newer Nvidia GPUs not so long ago. Some key > developers like John Baldwin got involved, and determined what changes > needed to be made in the FreeBSD base system in order to support the > newer hardware and graphics drivers. It would have been nice to get > an open-source driver, but since Nvidia wasn't willing to do that, > FreeBSD chose to meet them half-way. Probably a similar effort will > be needed for CUDA. Someone should look at the requirements, and have > a _detailed_, _sustained_ discussion with Nvidia and the FreeBSD > Foundation. If, for example, KMS is needed, then the Foundation may > be willing to invest in that, because it will probably also be needed > for new graphics drivers and Xorg, anyway. Robert Noland was working > on it, but he was doing it largely by himself in his spare time, and > then he got a new job and had to slow down considerably, if not stop > altogether. > ...
Hi I remember seeing a post sometime back (either here or on nvnews) about someone getting a prebuilt linux-based CUDA application to work freebsd's linuxulator. Does this mean that the driver is ready, and just the toolchain has to be ported? Regards Gautham Ganapathy _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
